Our Little Picasso

Josie has been REALLY into painting lately. She has always liked it at preschool but we hadn't really been painting much at home. She had gotten some finger paints for Christmas and we found some other paints and a bunch of recycled paper and the first day we painted she was busy for over 2 1/2 hours. No kidding. Almost 3 hours of solid painting.

Josie shows off her "E"

She takes her painting VERY seriously. If you ask her a question or even talked to her while she is painting she will let you know, in no uncertain terms, that she "is very busy working on a painting project."

She has a very interesting style as well. She paints right up to the corners so that every inch of the paper is covered in paint. Her style also involves almost more paint than paper. Let's just say they take up to 2 days to fully dry!!

The second day of painting I told her she needed to put on painting clothes and this is the outfit she came up with. I guess that will work.

This is only a VERY small fraction of the art work she has created over the past couple of weeks. I need a drying rack of some kind. When she really goes at it all of the kitchen counters and the island are covered with drying art.

Last week the house was disturbingly quiet for a bit too long. I found Josie in the small little room under the stairs working on her letters. Part of the alphabet was up but she filled in the rest by herself and was sitting back to appreciate her work. (I did the numbers. She hasn't quite gotten those down yet.)

Last Sunday I hosted a bridal shower for my friend Heather. Thankfully, I had a lot of help from Beth and Simone. Here are the four of us (Beth, Heather, Simone and me)

Josie has an amazing memory. Here she is "reading" books to her dog, Husky.