little artists

There's not a lot of news to write about.  Things have calmed down at school.  Rachel's doing fine and enjoying it.  She especially likes art and music class, and on the days she has those classes, I hear all kinds of details about what they did.

She's really into her art these days.  She's always liked to draw and color, but lately she's drawing more and more.  She told me yesterday she wants to be an artist when she grows up.  And she's decided she wants to be an artist for Halloween. 

Yesterday she opened an "Art Stoodeo" in her bedroom (that's how she spelled it).  She spent all afternoon up in her room cleaning it, and when she came down she invited me to come up to her art studio (sometimes she calls it a museum, but she also calls it her studio).  She had taped all kinds of drawings all around her room.

Today she decided she wants to sing in the children's choir at our church for their Christmas performance.  I'm thrilled, though really surprised, because she's never had any interest in it in the past.  She's always said she's too scared to sing on stage.  So I'm excited that she brought it up all on her own and wants to do it.  Yay!

Rebecca has a new "Handy Dandy Notebook," (a different little notebook that used to belong to Rachel, and now Rebecca has claimed it).  But today she brought it to me and said, "See my iPad, Mommy?"  How she knows what an iPad is, I'm not sure, since I don't have one.  My mom just got one, and had it here the last time she came to visit, so maybe that's why she knows, but still....a two year old talking about an iPad?   She keeps telling me that she's drawing a zig zag line in her handy dandy notebook.  That was one of the clues once on Blue's Clues, so I guess that's where she got that, but she really doesn't know what a zig zag line is.