Happy Faces

"One big circle. Two dots. And a smiley face. Look mom. Look dad. I draw a happy face.”

Holy crap! That’s really good.

Dax doesn’t color much. He just doesn’t. He plays more with the crayons then actually uses them. They fit perfectly into the bed of his trucks and make a nice track for his Hot Wheels. We’ve bought coloring books for him and had little lessons on staying in the lines, but he really doesn’t care. His nursery pictures come home with one blue line. One. He just isn’t that interested in creating a masterpiece I guess.

He does love his little Doodle Pro though. I think this is our third one and it keeps him more entertained during Church than anything else I bring. He will sit on Austin’s lap and tell him what to draw. A shark. A dog. A crocodile. A lion. A bee. A lizard. A snake. A daddy snake. It’s mostly animals, but sometimes there is an occasional transportation something. A choo choo. A plane. A car. Then, after each picture, he shows me, so proud, as if he drew it himself. I never draw on those things. If Dax wants me to draw, which is only if Austin isn’t around, I stick to the alphabet and numbers. Once he called my dog and elephant, I gave up. I have no artistic ability.

Yesterday we were hanging out on a normal Sunday afternoon and he was drawing on his Doodle Pro. He asked me to draw a picture. Austin was sitting right next to me and he asked me to draw a picture. Talk about pressure! I stretched my artistic abilities as far as I could; a happy face. I said, “One big circle, two dots, and a smile.” He laughed. Then he tried. One big blob, 65 dots/marks, and another squiggly somewhere outside the “one big circle”. Then he laughed again. We erased it and did the same thing over about 30 times. I would show him how to do it, and then he would try. We got the 65 dots down to a few, but they were nowhere close to resembling eyes. Nothing in fact was really resembling a happy face. Austin helped a few times too. Then we got distracted while Dax kept working…..

“One big circle. Two dots. And a smiley face. Look mom. Look dad. I draw a happy face.”

Holy crap! That’s really good!!

So, here you have it, Dax’s first masterpiece!

P.S He was so proud of himself. I can NEVER get him to smile like this when I'm trying to take a picture.