More About Art
Cook is the one who does art with the kid. It's funny, since I would have said I was more artistically oriented than Cook, but I'm not. He loves it. He paints and paints and paints and is enormously patient with her crazy demands ("draw a little tiny baby sitting in a tree sucking on a pacifier!"). They do fingerpainting and tempera and watercolors and watercolor pencils. I always try to con her into just crayons, since it's easier. (I'm LAZY!)
We were very fortunate to pick up a cheesy free coloring book at Bonneville Dam, courtesy of the (eeeeviiiiiiiil) Army Corps of Engineers. The book features Bobber the Water Safety Dog, and the hapless Sinker, who fails to wear a lifejacket. There are also some foolish cats who drink beer while boating. (The weirdness of seeing a cartoon character drinking beer in a coloring book is somehow counteracted by the fact that it's a cat.) This kicked off the Coloring Book Era in Dutch's life, and we have to take one with us everywhere. We've since picked up a few more free ones, including (at the Pride Festival) some fantastic copies of pages from The Gender Coloring Book, featuring captions like "sometimes the princess gets rescued by the girl next door" and "don't let gender box you in!" which hopefully won't get conflated with Bobber the Water Safety Dog and screw up Dutch's future species identity.
We were very fortunate to pick up a cheesy free coloring book at Bonneville Dam, courtesy of the (eeeeviiiiiiiil) Army Corps of Engineers. The book features Bobber the Water Safety Dog, and the hapless Sinker, who fails to wear a lifejacket. There are also some foolish cats who drink beer while boating. (The weirdness of seeing a cartoon character drinking beer in a coloring book is somehow counteracted by the fact that it's a cat.) This kicked off the Coloring Book Era in Dutch's life, and we have to take one with us everywhere. We've since picked up a few more free ones, including (at the Pride Festival) some fantastic copies of pages from The Gender Coloring Book, featuring captions like "sometimes the princess gets rescued by the girl next door" and "don't let gender box you in!" which hopefully won't get conflated with Bobber the Water Safety Dog and screw up Dutch's future species identity.
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