A Family Portrait

This one was done by Nathanh.  Over the years I have tried drawing with Nathanh but it quickly turns into him wanting me to draw things for him.  He thinks his drawing isn't good enough and no matter how much encouragement I give him I don't get too much out of him.  I was thinking about it again recently because I thought he should have some drawing skill / experience for entering Kindergarten.  I have never seen him draw a person and that is so telling in Kindergarten. Anyways, out of the blue yesterday, while I was making dinner, Nathanh wanted to draw.  So I got him a big piece of paper and his felts.  He announced that he was drawing Daddy.  When I heard this, I perked up and suggested a family picture.  Nathanh took on this challenge and did rather well, I thought! 

From left to right this is Nathanh, Thianna, Mommy with the brown hair and Daddy with the round tummy and spikey hair (Nathanh's words not mine!). And we are all holding hands!  I was so expecting his first people drawings to be circles with smiles and arms and legs coming out of the circles.  So, this was pretty impressive!

After dinner Nathanh asked for his picture back, I'd hung it on the fridge by then.  He said he wasn't finished the background.  I was a bit afraid he'd wreck the picture by over adding to it but I gave it back to him and he added in the waterfall.

So this is our family picture at Shannon Falls.  It is just pretend though because as Nathanh explained, last time we were there, Thianna wasn't with us yet.  The rainbow is the rainbow that you see in the mist (the dots) of the waterfall!  

This was a photo that Nathanh took of Erwin and I at Shannon Falls last winter.