“A picture says a thousand words...”

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At our house art is a constant flow of energy.  A child's artwork depicts their perception of the world around them, and art is a medium through which a child expresses her thoughts, feelings and fantasies.   

"Art is your emotions flowing in a river of imagination." ~Devin, Los Cerros

Our girls dive in with extreme concentration and care.  It is fascinating to watch them.

The challenge is how not to ruin it for our children, by providing models and asking "What is it?" This causes frustration when they can't live up to our examples, and a loss of confidence when they realize that we don't know exactly what they were trying to create.

"Good art is not what it looks like, but what it does to us."  ~Roy Adzak

"As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done." ~Pablo Picasso


So for now we try to expose them to as many different mediums as we can.

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Our little Rockhound!

Jayden has become a total rockhound!  She's constantly looking for unique and interesting rocks or crystals.

She has a really neat collection started and is learning all kinds of things along the way...  her Auntie Liz and Uncle Keith sent her a neat mining kit for her birthday.  

Jayden has polished her first set of rocks in her new rock tumbler and is excited to make jewelry out of them.  It was very neat to see her and Grandpa huddled together looking up each of her different treasures.  

As her collection gets larger so does the number of random rocks we find all over the house.  Twice there have been rocks in our garbage disposal, and countless times her rocks have been found in the washer or dryer.

However, upon closer examination it is amazing to see her excitement and ongoing fascination with all her discoveries.  As she gets older, I hope that she's able to hold on to her love of this fun new hobby.