Raine has been scribbling already (since the start of this year actually) although he has not been in a real school yet. I have to admit that I have neglected this part of Raine’s development. He’s a got a few books but I don’t really read to him. He’s doing a lot of “reading” mostly by himself. It’s more like I’m reading (or writing) something else side by side with him; at least I get to supervise him a little bit whenever he’s got questions (which is 85% of the time!).

So far he has exceeded my expectation. He knows most animals and stuff already. He’s associating them right both in print and on video. He’s over the tiger-mammoth-elephant-dinosaur-frog-snake mania. Now he is into the whale-shark-fish-turtle craze. As a result, whenever he sees me holding a pen, he takes out a piece of paper and commands me to draw a fish, shark and turtle in successions of different sizes. When I get tired, I urge him to draw one himself but always gives the excuse that he doesn’t know how to. And then when I tell him that he should learn to draw at one point, he insists that only mommy should draw. (As if I can really draw, I’m stucked at the sticks and stones art style stage.) So in one of those rare moments that I prodded him to draw a shark, he came up with this:

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Not bad eh? For someone who probably has an “art-gene” close to zero.