Jonah’s easel has been in our kitchen area for a while now, and it’s a great thing to keep him happy and occupied while I’m getting food ready. He will often request that I draw a part of a truck or something and then he happily finishes it off. Lately, though, he’s started doing more faces and pictures completely on his own and loves to share them with whomever is around.

Here are a few of my recent favorites along with his comments about them.

“Did you just make a blue pumpkin face with a stem on top??!!”

“The snowman and the big skeleton head are talking to each other.”

“There is an ‘oh-my-goodness’ face and a big skeleton face!”

He’s also started to copy and write a few letters. H’s and O’s are his favorites, so he can write ‘ho ho ho,’ which is great for him since he loves to find and talk about Santa.

And he draws his own Santas.

“This Santa has a huuuuuge beard!”

“And now he needs a Santa hat…”

“…with a little ball on the end of it.”

He really loves to draw!