04 JUNE 2007
Happy birthday to me! Below is what Annie greeted me with this morning when I woke up. She was so excited about my birthday this morning that she designed this for me at the crack of dawn. I think she drew our family. Is the little bald person supposed to be Mike? If you’ll notice, she also wrote “Go” and “Mom”. Am I to assume that she is cheering me on?
Annie has become quite the little artist lately. She will come from school with all these sheets of paper with several doodles. Her teacher explains that Annie is constantly asking to draw during playtime, so she just lets her have at it. I think she gets this interest from Mike because I was never much of an artist. Mike still teases me about my sketch book drawings from Drawing 101. He’s particularly fond of a drawing of a frog where I forgot to sketch the ledge he was supposed to perched on. Instead the poor frog looked like he was having some kind of intestinal trauma. Thankfully, no evidence remains of my drawing days. I hope Annie has the skills of her father, who is actually quite an artist. Mike’s mom still has one of his drawings displayed in a guest bedroom in her home. Here’s a rendition of the city drawn during church a couple of weeks ago. What can I say, I’m a proud mama!