Caulder and Kessler love art. They love to do projects and draw pictures of people, animals, and buildings. They can also write all of their letters, numbers and some words, which they incorporate into most drawings. My favorite words that I frequently see on their drawings are 'I love mommy'. Recently Caulder came home with a nice drawing of a house covered in flowers. It didn't seem like his typical subject matter, so I asked him if he actually drew that picture. He said that his school mate Alyssa drew it, but wanted him to have it. I turned it over and found Alyssa's name on the back alongside a large heart with the word 'love' in the middle. Mat took one look at it, and said 'I don't like the looks of that'.
The boys also recently learned to write the word 'poop', which they thought was really cool. I came home from a meeting one evening to find drawings covered in the word poop. Although maybe not appropriate, we try to encourage them to do as much writing as possible. However, this art project led Kessler to tell Mat the following:
Kessler: Daddy I want to tell you a secret.
Mat: What's that?
Kessler: Next time mommy is not looking, I am going to write the word 'poop' on a piece of paper and tape it to her back. Then I'm going to say 'look mommy has poop on her back'.
Definately not appropriate, but very clever!
To keep with the theme of poop, Caulder was helping me put our large garbage can back in our garage and noted as we slid it up against the wall: "One day there was a dead rat back there and it stunk" (It was actually a little mouse that got caught in a trap and died). "I said you are right it did stink". He then said, very seriously, "maybe it was pooping when it died, and that's why it stunk". This actually lead to additional discussions about decomposition, which were much more disgusting than poop.
