I can honestly say that at some point every single day both of them color.
Zoe is easy... because she can color by herself. She can get out her crayons or markers or pencils by herself. She can pick out paper or a coloring book by herself. I don't have to worry about what she's doing. I've really never had to worry about what she was doing. She used a pencil on the wall ONE time... never again. She is big on rules. She reminds everyone "CRAYONS ARE FOR PAPER!" We were lucky with her. But... she has trained us to be lazy with the putting away of our art materials.
Ana? Ana is a different story. I spend the day with slight anxiety constantly in the back of my mind. She is drawn to writing instruments like a magnet. If there is a crayon (or a marker or a pen or a pencil or a piece of chalk....) anywhere in her vicinity she will find it. She will then make art of whatever is closest. Luckily there hasn't been too much damage done. (Nothing a Mr. Clean Magic Eraser hasn't fixed.) We, as adults, are being forced to be retrained though. (We are slow and lazy and procrastinating learners though. It seems we must learn by experience now.) We can't leave ANYTHING ANYWHERE. Ana can reach the desk, the dining room table, the kitchen counter. She can open drawers. She can open markers. She can click pens. She is an unwanted mural on my dining room wall just waiting to happen.
But oh how they love to color and draw and scribble. They are both passionate artists.
My girls. They are night and day. They have so very many of the same loves... but they approach everything is a very different way.
God help me when they're both in high school.
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N is obsessed with coloring too, and spends a couple hours that way almost every day. Such an artist. And she's an Ana-style artist too!
Addison is the same as Ana! Writing instruments are not safe around her!! She will write on ANYTHING and it makes me CRAZY!!!
That is the beauty of having two girls, though! They love to test your parenting style every single day...just when you think you have it all figured out! But is Zoe into the "tattling" stage yet? That is kinda nice to have an extra set of eyes for when Ana is "not following the rules!"
An Ana-style artist. ACK!
I just know the day is going to come that I'm not careful enough and my wall or carpet or Ana herself will become the art. Like Nadia and her dotty face!
It wouldn't be so bad if we weren't so spoiled by Zoe. It's like we can't get it through our minds that certain things are just not safe to be left out. Of course... "left out" doesn't even matter too much. Today I found her with a marker and an electric pencil sharpener. Both were in their "safe drawers". I'm just doomed.
If Zoe notices what Ana is doing she is definitely all for tattling. Mostly she tattles because she is an enormous stickler for the rules. Some days I swear she's a little OCD. The idea that anyone would even THINK to write on something not meant for writing on sets Zoe off. BUT... 1/2 the time she's off in her own little dream world... engrossed fully in whatever she's doing... and she doesn't even notice that Ana is suddenly sharpening a marker with an electric pencil sharpener!!!
An Ana-style artist. ACK!
I just know the day is going to come that I'm not careful enough and my wall or carpet or Ana herself will become the art. Like Nadia and her dotty face!
It wouldn't be so bad if we weren't so spoiled by Zoe. It's like we can't get it through our minds that certain things are just not safe to be left out. Of course... "left out" doesn't even matter too much. Today I found her with a marker and an electric pencil sharpener. Both were in their "safe drawers". I'm just doomed.
That is the beauty of having two girls, though! They love to test your parenting style every single day...just when you think you have it all figured out! But is Zoe into the "tattling" stage yet? That is kinda nice to have an extra set of eyes for when Ana is "not following the rules!"
If Zoe notices what Ana is doing she is definitely all for tattling. Mostly she tattles because she is an enormous stickler for the rules. Some days I swear she's a little OCD. The idea that anyone would even THINK to write on something not meant for writing on sets Zoe off. BUT... 1/2 the time she's off in her own little dream world... engrossed fully in whatever she's doing... and she doesn't even notice that Ana is suddenly sharpening a marker with an electric pencil sharpener!!!
N is obsessed with coloring too, and spends a couple hours that way almost every day. Such an artist. And she's an Ana-style artist too!
Addison is the same as Ana! Writing instruments are not safe around her!! She will write on ANYTHING and it makes me CRAZY!!!
If Zoe notices what Ana is doing she is definitely all for tattling. Mostly she tattles because she is an enormous stickler for the rules. Some days I swear she's a little OCD. The idea that anyone would even THINK to write on something not meant for writing on sets Zoe off. BUT... 1/2 the time she's off in her own little dream world... engrossed fully in whatever she's doing... and she doesn't even notice that Ana is suddenly sharpening a marker with an electric pencil sharpener!!!
Addison is the same as Ana! Writing instruments are not safe around her!! She will write on ANYTHING and it makes me CRAZY!!!
N is obsessed with coloring too, and spends a couple hours that way almost every day. Such an artist. And she's an Ana-style artist too!
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