Patrice can draw houses now!

Patrice: Tita I'm want to draw
Me: Okay, here's paper. Use your crayons

(after five minutes)

Patrice: Tita I want to color
Me: Okay, use your crayons
Patrice: No, I'm want to paint
Me: No, you can use your crayons
Patrice: No, I want paint

After more haggling, I gave in and lent her my watercolors and a brush...

Her finished product:

I'm glad I gave in :)


October 18, 2008, Saturday
Age 4.3 years

Patrice's first attempt at watercolor painting with crayon resist
Drawing done by her,
8.5" X 11" Yellow bond paper










Work# 2
Watercolor painting with crayon resist
October 18, 2008, Saturday

Drawing done by Patrice at 4.3 years old
8.5" X 11" Yellow bond paper

What google says I like...

I'm a net whore so I google myself all the time (not just for vanity, but for security, especially critical now that I'm teaching...), but here's something interesting I haven't tried before:

INSTRUCTIONS: Go to Google and type in quotation marks, your first name, and then "likes to" (ex. "charles likes to"). Type in the first ten things that come up and repost in your own blog.

(thanks for sharing, Mele!)

1. Johanna likes to wear short dresses.
2. Johanna likes to invent clarinet dances and non- sequiter nicknames
3. Johanna likes to call out her own name. She calls it out in particularly srtange places...
4. Johanna likes to cook and spend time with friends and family.
5. Johanna likes to wear the pants in a relationship
6. johanna likes to rape horses at the mall
7. Johanna likes to flatter her breathtaking figure with seductive and revealing outfits.
8. Johanna likes to keep her pages interesting by adding non-traditional supplies.
9. Johanna likes to be able to lose herself in the past.
   
10. Johanna likes to play hard to get, so be ready for THAT!

Number 6, hands down winner!