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Avery learns to write

// July 19th, 2008 // 2 Comments » // Family

Lately, Avery’s future career of choice had changed from a firefighter to an artist.  More specifically a painting artist. Although she has phases of wanting to be a marker artist too.  We’ve been really working with her on learning the alphabet.  She can sing the alphabet song now pretty well, and she can recognize a bunch of them if she sees them.  

We’ve moved on to showing her how to write the letters.  We’ve found chalk to be the most fun for her to use, and she loves it.  We have an alphabet poster hanging on the wall in our play room, so we’ll reference that when we pick out a letter to draw.  We draw all the letters, but ‘A’ is our favorite because her name starts with that letter.  She’ll go up to the poster and look at the picture and try and figure out what letter it is.  Once she has it figured out, she’ll go back to her chalk table and practice drawing it.

The other day while she was being a marker artist, I was at work, and Christi was in the living room with Hannah when Avery came running in screaming “I drawed a letter! I drawed a letter  ’A’ !”.  Sure enough, she drew the letter A all by herself without any instruction. 

We are so proud!  She’s not even 3 yet (but will be in September) and we think she’s a genius.  The picture above is her showcasing her lasted marker artist creation.  

Felice Varini

// May 5th, 2008 // No Comments » // Art

I’ve been a fan of this Swiss artist’s work for a few years now. His paintings are only viewable from ONE certain vantage point, but when you see it as you’re meant to…AMAZING!

His website is a little hard to navigate (seeing as how it isn’t in English) , but this link will take you to a gallery of his work arranged chronologically.