Mother's Day 2012

I created another blog site in which to jot down ideas for doing art projects with Mercer or gardening / earthy-related things.  I put a post on there about making Mother's Day cards:  http://www.earth-and-crafts.blogspot.com/  There haven't been very many art projects that Mercer has warmed up to, but he really did LOVE doing the marble-painting project.  Mercer has been drawing a lot at school, however, and it's pretty amazing to see the progression in these examples:

About 2 months ago, he drew these people.  The ones with the pink on them is "daddy" "mommy" and "me"

Mercer "progressed" to adding eyes the following month.  Not sure what the big one in the middle is (looks like fangs) but the ones on the bottom are our family.  Todd at the right, Mercer next to him -- both with purple eyes.  I'm the brown with orange eyes and he says the little one with orange eyes is his baby sister.  The ones in green at the left are his friends.


















Most recently - he's been drawing a lot of these people with facial characteristics.  I'm the purple one.  Todd is the blue one.  He hasn't drawn a recent self-portrait in this new drawing style, but we'll ask him to draw one and post it as soon as he does.

Mercer is also writing "on demand."  If he wants to write something, we tell him what letters to write - but he can pretty much do it on his own.  I bet how this is how he made the mother's day card shown here.  If you read it carefully -- I'm not actually taking him to "swing" -- at the time they made the card, we were taking him to "swim."   The teacher probably mistook what he said when asked to describe what his mom does!  ~ha~   it's perfect.  : - )

It poured rain on mother's day, so we postponed a visit to a new botanical garden 'til the following weekend. The garden was designed by a local landscaper and was a project that he has been working on for 20 years. It is pretty -as seen in many of these photos.