rainbows & unicorns.

one endearing quality that i embody is that of a 'starving artist' and how i wish i could go back to the days that my biggest decision would be what medium i was going to choose; watercolour, oils, pastels? now my days are filled with decisions of what to feed children for lunch, how to expand their ever-growing minds, and how to mold these tiny nuggets into upstanding citizens of their surrounding peers. pretty sure i'll go back to deciding which medium to use & what my inspiration of said masterpiece is going to be.

 i can't tell you how proud i am of my junior art apprentice. one extremely exciting quality that mr man k exudes is his eye & love for art. he is definitely a "colour-er" and loves to draw. his drawings are becoming more intricate and lately he's been drawing actual pictures, portraits for lack of a better word, &you can actually tell what they are as opposed to his original works of art which screamed abstract. colours & lines, shapes & patterns, nothing defined purely a piece of mood/personality. now these? these are actual portraits. people, places, things; it's absolutely amazing.

recently k took to drawing people. although they are still those original stick people with overly large heads, they still paralleled the shape of a person & with unique attributions you can totally tell whom he is creating. now? now he is drawing one of mommas favourite creatures. unicorns. being sure to include their attributes correctly & discuss exact colours, features, and placement of said attributes.  hello their horn & colours have to be just right. right?

below is last night's masterpiece, we shall call it unicorn sitting upon a rainbow. swoon. i think have a mini-matisse on my hands & a follower in mamas footsteps which means maybe i can get back into it.. right? riiiiight???

unicorn sitting upon a rainbow
medium: crayola crayon
mrmank

okay, so maybe my enthusiasm is premature, but c'mon peeps. do you see this gold? ah-ma-zing. the nugget is drawing, making this mama proud & i have works of art popping up all over the fridge.

meet mr man k

as most of you know, i have two nuggets. today is all about, mr man k aka kohen. he is my four year old bundle of energy.

resembling good ol' brad pitt, i must say my offspring is pretty good looking ;) okay okay don't hate, he really does resemble mr.pitt though. can you see it??!

mr man k is my sensitive ball of energy who is a certified mommas boy. let me tell you that i never ever thought i would be proud to have a mommas boy but secretly (okay maybe not so secretly) i loooove it. srsly. having a mommas boy makes me feel pretty special to be this little guys momma.

kohen has recently been diagnosed with a sensory stimuli problem & it just makes him that much more unique. he falls under the "exceptional/genius" category for his age &it's great to know that he is just high-functioning. he perceives the world at a different level than the rest of us. who knew that the ants in his pants were actually just that him being awesome! he can't sit still. he has a hard time behaving. &the best part of this you ask? this does not make my child a "bad" child. my recent fear while signing him up for kindergarten & realizing that i was sending him into a shark tank.

we have been testing him with a development specialist & finding all of these quirky things that make up my spirited child. this has empowered me to speak about this to everyone. there is nothing worst, in my eyes, than labelling a child in school. to me, school is fantastic - i want my children to love it as much as i did. but how do you give your child the best running chance when they do the opposite as what the mold says they should do?

i will get into this more in the future, as i become educated. however, i wanted to touch on this as this is my post about k. isn't he awesomesauce? i think so.

k loves cars, trains, & anything that "goes". he is a boys boy. loves getting dirty, exploring the world around him, & i love that he is super sensitive and emotional. he has enough emotion for everyone around him & that makes him, k. he loves to learn, loves to colour, &loves to bust a move.

every one of these traits makes up the super-fantastic boy that i feel lucky to call my son.