Friday

Today Miss M was denied television as a consequence of a long and noisy meltdown yesterday afternoon.  We spent some time together drawing pictures, which is something she rarely does anymore.  She made up a brilliant story with a girl on one page finding a passage to a magical land, then she turned the page over and drew the magical land and the girl looked somewhat different, because the land was different. Her hair was a different color, her skin was a different color.... It was pretty cool.   She asked me to draw too (she actually said "I'll draw pictures if you will draw with me,") so I drew an abstract (because that's what I do) and then a picture of a house and a little girl (because kids like those kinds of pictures, or at least she does), and she asked me about it. 

"Is that a big girl?"

"No, she's a toddler, see her little arms and little legs?" (as I was drawing them)

"Can you please draw her Mommy too, because I'm uncomfortable seeing a two-year-old alone like that."

So I drew the Mom and went to make dinner.  M decided that the family needed to be bigger, and the picture more detailed, so she drew a Dad and a big sister and a little brother ("I think Josh or William are great names for a little baby. Then they can change it when they grow up,") and a stinky diaper and a puppy and a big bright sun.