Amelia's art

The big one is improving by leaps and bounds in drawing. She started drawing at a completely average time but did so only in red for a full year (her favorite color) and with extremely ...um..."confident" strokes so everything looked really intense and unrecognizable. Things improved a bit after 4 when she grudgingly started using some other colors, but her stuff was always very easy to pick out in preschool because it was very dramatic. Very dark and scribbly. Very - loose from a reality standpoint.

So it's quite striking to see projects from her like these come home from school:




This one isn't so complex but she can describe the expression she drew on the face.

At home she has notebooks full of drawings - a train with doors and windows racing across a field, trees in the background, a sky full of hot air balloons each with one person vomiting over the edge (probably the favorite Amelia topic of all time), even cars that she draws only because she knows Oliver loves them. I'll share them when/if I remember to photograph them!