Monday, November 16, 2009

A New Perspective??

My neighbor dropped by to show me some art work the kids did while she was watching them last week. She asked me if I had taught him perspective and I said, "Huh? What's perspective?".
She showed my this picture Kyle (a kindergartener) drew and explained that perspective is drawing different sizes of objects to show distance. I looked at the picture and I was blown away. She was right. Kyle drew this little racquetball scene and even the racquet is smaller than the racquet in the forefront. I was amazed that he knew to draw the person before drawing the net.
My paternal Grandmother was an amazing artist and so many of my Clark cousins inherited that talent. In my immediate family only my younger sister was blessed. I'm beginning to be convinced more and more that Kyle was blessed with a talent. And I'm not just saying this because he goes through more computer paper than a print shop. You should see this kid's Huge folder of pokeman cards he's invented. He draws his little creature and makes sure he has a relevant name, gives him all these powers and numbers. It's amazing.
(by the way, I don't know who Rod is. It must have been a piece of scrap paper at my neighbor's house.)




Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Happy Halloween

Katherine was a Cat, Kyle was a skeleton, Josh was a karate ninja, Caleb was a baby skeleton, Mommy was Al Borlin, Daddy was a party pooper.


We gave Caleb a dum dum to keep him happy the last few minutes and this is how he fell asleep. He slept that way for 10 minutes.



At this house the kids wouldn't take their eyes off the statues. You never know when one could reach out and get you!



Pumpkin carving joy!