Claire's Drawing: A Mommy & Baby Bird

Claire is also getting better and better at drawing and coloring.  Here are her two latest pieces of art.  Too bad it's on the magna doodle.  I'd probably frame it otherwise.  :) 

The amazing thing to me is that she keeps trying.  The first picture is the one with her holding it proudly.  It's a mommy bird giving a baby bird a worm.  It's stick people style. The birds have stick bodies and heads with beaks.  You can see the squiggly worm going from beak to beak.  She had to re-draw the first time because it got erased. She started to cry while trying to re-do it because it was hard, but I convinced her to keep trying and not give up.  She was able to dry her tears and finish the drawing.  She did it pretty close to what she had done the first time. 

We were both so happy and proud!  It may have been a learning moment for her, too, that you can do hard things if you keep trying. 

And every time she gets a little better.  The next day, her stick birds got bodies and the tree had more branches. 

I think it's really a great lesson for all of us - applicable to developing new talents, acquiring skills, habits, or attributes.  And perhaps it brings God joy, too, in an even greater way than I had with my daughter.  Pretty cool lessons we get to learn in our families.