My little rockstar

It seems my daughter besides an artist is also a performer in the making. Just this morning, she belted like a little rockstar. So exciting and yet at the same time the overeager stage mom in me is screaming to come out. Thoughts like "do I need to do something?", "Do I need to get her into a workshop or something?" And on my other shoulder there's "Will those things alter the natural flow of her talents and her passions?", "Will it ruin her 'voice'?" keeps on popping out. But I think for the meantime the saner mommy in me  wins. Let her (and us) enjoys the things she love doing. Let her form her own 'voice' until it's whole enough, solid enough to stand pat beside the world who might want to place everything in its own mold. But I'm also cutting my self some slack, as a mom it's perfectly justified to be proud but trying to be aware of the annoyance string I might strum along the way.

Daughter's Latest Artpiece

I found this on her work table and asked everyone in the house who did this and it turned out SHE DID IT HERSELF!!! Wow, my four year old can really paint now. Can't believe it for like ten minutes :)

I won't and can't credit it to my teaching because the most I do is let her do her thing... vandalize the wall, the floor , my notebooks, and almost everything she can laid her hands to. I loved to buy her all sort of drawing tools like sketch pad, crayons, water color, pastel color, paint, color pencil. And a little appreciation like "Very good", "Galing", and queries like "What's this" and "Tell me about it" would do a lot of wonder pala.

And I think it worked to actually take her to the right direction...HER direction.

#1 Destinylittleprojects

At first, we went to the municipal library to familiarize her with a library and of course, to read. To my dismay there's only two shelf worth of books mostly encyclopedias and bible story series. We scanned some of the books, view the Encyclopedia photos of mostly amphibians, reptiles, and fish.Our public library are in dire need of attention and donations. I promised myself, if Destiny's outgrown books will be given to this library. But are our townspeople really coming to this library to read? I scanned the log book and visitors are mostly from the nearby public highschool doing research.

Second, we did some weaving at home.

Materials: 

Scissors

2 or more sheets of color bond paper of different colors

The weaved paper later became a skirt, shreds became bracelet, pambugaw ng langaw, magic wand. Imagination is surely the limit.

Fun day for me as a mommy and a photographer ♥