The bells go off

Sawyer has just started creating his first representative artwork. Always before it was pretty much just scribbles. The breakthrough came — I think — with all the coloring he did on the plane to Virginia.

I love kid art, so I've had art materials around my kids since they were 12 months old. I've been waiting and waiting. But, its just been scribbles, and Sawyer never really took much interest in art at all. The teachers kept saying: It will come.

The first thing he drew this week was a picture of his family, which is hanging on the wall at school. I cried and hugged him. (I can't believe I had to wait until he was 4 and to see his first stick figure.)

This picture, he said, is of Mommy and Daddy getting married — which is why we don't have any kids. I'm on the right, playing the guitar for Daddy to calm him down ... although originally I think that was supposed to be me on the left with my wedding dress. So, maybe I'm really just marrying myself. I love it anyway.

Arden, who has always had a better since of color and line, painted me this, which she said is an eye.