left, right, left

all I have to do is start sorting the crayons

her preference

he's so left-handed he writes from right to left.

asking for rainbows

he likes it when i write out names for him. he writes over them himself and colors in the spaces in the letters. he also asks for rainbows. he has almost all the names for the colors figured out.

the party continues with cookies and ice cream

Josef Albers for toddlers: beginning color theory

he is starting to learn the names of the colors. (thought mostly things are blue or red, if you ask him.) mama with her art school education mixed him up some colors of play dough.
it is like a color wheel to he can play with and oh, the blending possiblies. there is even a square cookie cutter if he wants to duplicate Homage to the Square.

my leftie

he's been making a new kind of mark lately and today he called it "write" instead of "draw."
he asked me to write "papa" and i did. then he wrote it, too.

top right: his drawing
middle right: mama's writing
bottom left: his writing

more signs that he's left-handed (besides holding the pencil in that hand) he starts his writing on the right side and goes toward the left.

meanwhile, he's being left-handed

so, a quick story.

mostly i post when he's snoozing (like right now.) but sometimes i get the urge (or an impatient email from a loyal reader) and have to post while he's awake. when this happens, i try to find activities to occupy him. this one was supposed to be drawing-on-the-paperbut rapidly turned into drawing-on-my-own-hand. i swear, i only looked away for like two seconds. but yes, i did give him the pens to start out with.
on the bright side, it is proof that he may be left-handed (like his mama.)