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Hey everyone! 🙂

Zoe here to share something that has been making me smile a lot lately… From the featured image on this post, you are probably thinking “WHOA! Let’s hope that’s not a plan for a new kit” – LOL! And it’s not, it’s my own little Picasso, aka Josh, and I’m loving his little artworks lately!

One of my very first vivid memories as a child is the day I drew a ballerina and it actually looked like something… I was about Josh’s age (four) sitting on my Nana’s back steps, and I ran into her to show her my creation. I remember feeling so proud that I could draw the legs as two lines instead of one.  This ballerina would have been the tallest woman in the world, by the way, as her legs were about a mile long, LOL, but I thought it was one of my biggest achievements.  Drawing was one of my favourite things to do as a small child, and I’m so glad he’s starting to enjoy it too!

I love how he expresses his feelings and tells the story to go with them. I always make sure I write them down on the page, with the date, because hey… I might have a wild imagination, but I don’t think in a few week’s time I would remember what all these spaghetti figures are – LOL!

One of my favourites is his rendition of this wedding photo, which we have hanging on our wall (and Mummy looks like a “Princess” – LOL)

This is his version – I love how he’s drawn my veil and his Dad’s arms around my neck! I know I look a bit like an Octopus head or something, but it is so sweet to me 🙂 Lately he’s been saying he wants to marry me, and I have to keep explaining that we can’t get married but that he will find a nice girl to marry one day.  So sweet!

And then there’s this one, which made me well up when I saw it… Josh has a little trouble with understanding time – so yesterday might mean last year, etc.  Anyway, the other day, he said to me “the best part of my day was when Lola came out of Mummy’s tummy”.  Isn’t that just the sweetest thing?!?

And then he drew this picture for me, which is my favourite thing ever and I am going to frame and hang on my wall just as soon as I can get out to Ikea to buy one:

And it’s him when he was inside my tummy.  If you can’t tell (and I can’t blame you, I thought it might have been an underwater scene at first LOL), the blob at the top is my face and then the section in the middle is him, and I have my hands on my tummy). And he was very happy in there apparently – LOL!

So, there’s a little piece of my everyday life and what makes me happy… I really love that he is starting to form his own little memories, and that the things that are important to him are the things that are so important to me as well! And of course that he is starting to find his creative side too. I love that I can also use these types of things in my Project Life album and always remember.

Thanks for reading!

xx Zoe