Angels We Have Colored Our Best

So, there are a lot of things, when done, that will show us the difference in children. For instance, if we were to give the kids a pile of mud on the table and say, "Go ahead. Do whatever you want with this." We would get the following responses:
Amelia: With a VERY angry face) "No! Down!"(She HATES dirty hands or dirty anything. She doesn't have much fun playing outside, and often comes to the door crying to have her hands cleaned.)
Isaiah:Before we could get the sentence out he'd be sitting on the table IN the mud making strictly boy sounds while squeezing the mud through his fingers and into every crevice of his being. Clothing would be optional...He'd likely cry when told it was time to clean up.
Addison: After watching Isaiah for a while she'd slowly start to get closer to the mud, but, knowing mud is NOT her thing she'd simply move her finger around in it creating designs and thinking how great it would be once the mud was cleaned up and they could play beauty parlor.
KK: She'd start at once on creating a meal out of mud. She'd have mud pies, mud tacos, mud shakes. You name it, she'd make it. The mud wouldn't bother her a bit and she'd be laughing and having herself a GOOD old time. When it was time to clean up she'd just squish her mud food into the pile and think there was no reason to clean anything off of her hands or the table.
Olivia: She'd first inspect the mud for bugs or anything else that might not be pleasant to touch. Then, having her Kid Craft book in hand she'd look up the kind of mud it was and where it might have come from. Then, she might ask the kids to spell mud with her and give them a lesson on proper mud play. Lastly, she'd sculpt a mud figure that could be compared only to those of the great mud artists before her. She'd be attached to the figure at once and would ask if she could put it in her "special spot"(a box in the closet) and keep it "for-ev-er."

So, I shouldn't be surprised when my kids bring the same craft home and it looks so drastically different. I'll now bring in exhibit A:

A simple cute angel craft. Needs only to be colored and glued around the back.

 

I'll now bring in Exhibit B: colored by Isaiah on Sunday at church.

Brubbs usually does the minimal amount of work. He's not big on coloring, but tries to at least do what he's asked. His angel shows that he loves the colors blue, green, and orange, which when asked he'd tell you are his FAVORITE colors. He probably asked if he could see the stapler so he could "see how to work it." when they got it out to staple the back together. When he showed us this he said, "I made uh angel. It's mine."

 

Now turn your attention to Exhibit C: colored by Addison.

You'll notice her perfect use of skin tone colors. She tends to be a little OCD about coloring and generally all of her pictures look like they were copied from another picture she'd seen on the cover. You'll also notice that she used "rainbow" to color the bottom half of her angel's dress. She likely came up with a name for her angel or said it was her since it has blonde hair. She also uses eyelashes to show it's a girl. When she showed us this she said, "I tried to make it look JUST like an angel is supposed to look."

 

Now, lastly, lets turn our attention to Exhibit D: Colored by the one and only KK.

Yes, folks. Here you have the classic clown angel. The look is completed only with red hair, rosie cheeks, clown nose, clown lips, and clown clothes. I said, "What made you want to make your angel into a clown?" She said, "I wanted it to be a clown. The face is white because clowns have white faces. It's AWESOME!" Well, KK, I can't say that I disagree. Ha!

 

So, there you have it folks. Now imagine the fun in raising all these littles.

This is your life. Soak it up!