Abby's "Art Projects"

Abby has been VERY in to doing "art projects" lately.  She spends on average 3 hours a day sitting at the bar doing her "projects" as she likes to call them.  She has been doing this for well over a month.  She's really starting to get good at spelling, writing letters, drawing things, etc.  It's what she loves to do.

Whenever we're going to see one of her (or our) friends, she always insists on making a project for them.  She gives Peggy and I at least three or four of her projects each day.  She always tells "you can take it to work and hang it up!"  We've taken a lot of them "to work."  Ok, so most end up in the recycling, but seriously, if we took them all to work we'd walk in with boxes of stuff.

This has also helped her with her letters and spelling.  We've been working a lot with her on her letters and writing words with the letters in order.  Just in the last month, she has come soooo far.  She can now spell words like: Abby, Daddy, Mommy, Noah, Kai, Sally, Bobo all on her own with absolutely no help anymore!  There's also a lot of other words she can spell with our help.

Here are some pictures of her latest creations.

She likes to make frames for her art.  She was using tape, but she was going through tape like crazy, so we cut her off.  The smart little girl she is, she used stickers instead!

On the right is a house.  On the left is one of her stick puppets (with paper in place of the stick).  She made a lot of these.

This is her drawing of her and Noah.  She did this all by herself, and even added a heart in the middle.  Adorable!

She learned how to draw butterflies today.

Some of the words she knows how to write.

Lots and lots of butterflies.  In the background you can see her pile of paper.  The projects were taking over the entire bar area.  We now make her clean up her stuff and put it in the pile when she is done.