Artist in Residence

Our kids love to draw and paint but I've never actually seen something recognizable from either of their work.  Jonah knows how to draw shapes and can write his name, etc. but other than that, I hadn't seen much progress. 

The other day, however, he surprised us with a picture he drew on his chalkboard.  He was supposed to be asleep in his bed at night when he started calling out for Daddy to come.  Jonah is full of tricks when it comes to putting off sleep so we aren't too patient when we go back to his room to tell him he needs to close his eyes and stop talking.  When Jon walked into room, he saw a picture on the chalkboard which Jonah described, "That's Daddy, me, and my callapiter (caterpillar)."  We were both impressed with his figure drawing since we'd never seen it before.

The next evening, Jonah took the same picture and transformed it.  When he called us in to look at it, this is what it showed:

Can you guess who is whom?

Jonah explained, "This is Mommy with the babies in her belly, me, and my callapiter."  Ten babies.  If my legs stayed as skinny as they are in the picture during the whole pregnancy, you could put as many babies in that belly as you like!