The Next Picasso?

(We’re working on getting these pictures rotated the right way)

  

 

I think not.  Every Thursday morning we go to art class for babies at the Rec. Center.  I know, you’re thinking ART CLASS???  Well see, I couldn’t do swimming lessons because he’s had ear infections and it was the middle of winter.  They didn’t offer baby sign language classes and he was too old for the gymboree exercise classes.  So we are developing his creative side!  Actually, Kian hates the paint.  The teacher sets up stations with chalk, a fun activity (the oatmeal picture – sometimes it is beans or water, but this week it was oatmeal), finger paint, real paint with brushes, sponges, cotton balls and trucks to drive through the paint, oh – and there are easels too!  Anyway, as soon as Kian touches the fingerpaint he wiggles his fingers in the air because he doesn’t like the texture – notice the “Unhappy Painter” picture – and I actually painted that!  And last week I tried to get him to use the paint brush and he dropped it on my pants.  It never ceases though, every week he goes right to the chalk easel – not to draw, but to hoard all the chalk and eat it.  So I have learned that I could go to Walmart and buy him a bin of chalk instead of signing him up for art class and he would be just as happy.  But then we’d have pictures of him at Walmart.  So I guess this was worth it!  He sure looks creative!