For Dylan (Inspired by a card from Aunt Robyn)
Benjamin's Train
For Baby Josie
We really had fun with our pictures. It's been our packing/leaving/saying goodbye to friends therapy. And it helps the insomnia. A little. I wish my photography did our little creations justice. I didn't have time to get the lighting right.
In my file of dreams is pictures of a cute cape cod cozy, but well-organized little home i.e. tons of built-in bookshelves and storage. My favorite feature is a light-filled "art/sewing room" right off the kitchen. It's a beautiful thing. We could make messes to our heart's delight. Hopefully is this dream world, the Hobby Lobby will be right down the street. I already have Benjamin and I signing up to take classes there in post-Tahiti life. And then we'll take workshops at Home Depot and then we'll build a soap box car and then...I guess I shouldn't be surprised that when Benjamin sees me getting my sewing machine out, he starts listing about five ideas for projects. I think he just might have to have his own sewing machine someday and real tools, and art supplies, and...
Which leads me to some favorite Benjamin memories from lately. I walked upstairs the other day to see that watching lots of "How It's Made" DVDs from the library had inspired him to build a factory using Dylan's balls and toys. His factory had about 7 different phases/processes. It just warms a mother's heart to see her five year old creating a simple Rube Goldberg machine out of found objects. It was very cool. He has also been saying lately that he wants to be a builder when he grows up. So the other day, I found him working with the legos. "I have to practice being a builder." He had gotten a book from the library on skyscrapers and was looking at it for ideas. He then drew a picture of what he wanted to build. And since he's perfectly five and distractable, he actually did not execute his plan. Yet.
Isaac tells me regularly that he is going to be an engineer and drive a train. "Nee Mom. The Number Five train. You can ride with me. In a car behind the engine." What I like most is when he says, "Engineer needs to go to the bathroom!"
But he often says he wants to be a builder too and Benjamin says that they will be builders together and that when I grow up I can work with them.
Sounds like a great plan!
In my file of dreams is pictures of a cute cape cod cozy, but well-organized little home i.e. tons of built-in bookshelves and storage. My favorite feature is a light-filled "art/sewing room" right off the kitchen. It's a beautiful thing. We could make messes to our heart's delight. Hopefully is this dream world, the Hobby Lobby will be right down the street. I already have Benjamin and I signing up to take classes there in post-Tahiti life. And then we'll take workshops at Home Depot and then we'll build a soap box car and then...I guess I shouldn't be surprised that when Benjamin sees me getting my sewing machine out, he starts listing about five ideas for projects. I think he just might have to have his own sewing machine someday and real tools, and art supplies, and...
Which leads me to some favorite Benjamin memories from lately. I walked upstairs the other day to see that watching lots of "How It's Made" DVDs from the library had inspired him to build a factory using Dylan's balls and toys. His factory had about 7 different phases/processes. It just warms a mother's heart to see her five year old creating a simple Rube Goldberg machine out of found objects. It was very cool. He has also been saying lately that he wants to be a builder when he grows up. So the other day, I found him working with the legos. "I have to practice being a builder." He had gotten a book from the library on skyscrapers and was looking at it for ideas. He then drew a picture of what he wanted to build. And since he's perfectly five and distractable, he actually did not execute his plan. Yet.
Isaac tells me regularly that he is going to be an engineer and drive a train. "Nee Mom. The Number Five train. You can ride with me. In a car behind the engine." What I like most is when he says, "Engineer needs to go to the bathroom!"
But he often says he wants to be a builder too and Benjamin says that they will be builders together and that when I grow up I can work with them.
Sounds like a great plan!
Dreams are as good a imagination and your dreams are beautiful as are the dreams of your little men, Benjamin and Isaac. Soom Dylan will have some of those dreams, too.
ReplyDeleteTell Isaac that Spicer wanted to be a "steam engine driver" for years when he was younger- I think the train obsession had something to do with that. What fun you all have with your art. hmmm. . . a sewing room- I think I need to build my house in NC. Dad, you available- haha. JK.
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ReplyDeleteI love the paintings! Pretty soon we'll have our own San Diego Zoo of paintings on the wall! You'll have to get some ideas for painting sea-life in Tahiti!
(From Eric)
I always loved your paintings. that is something I wish I could do is draw and paint.
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