Or? Yall have ears like Swatch Watches - you can change the color to match the outfit (though unfortunately it looks like you mayn’t be clothed often by the drawings.)

And the 80s andro-look MAY be coming back…or you all stand in the wind a lot!!

This came home with her from preschool yesterday:

So it looks like the afterthought ears are a kind of signature detail.

She later disputed whether it was a renditon of me, or of her mama. True, the hair is a kind of a mix between what she’s done for either of us before. Long for me, short for mama. Maybe it’s the 80s androgynous look coming back.

You know, the “House, Tree, Person” test totally backs up Shereen’s comment - height *does* denote self-esteem. It doesn’t matter WHO is drawn - even though she’s not pictured, it still speaks directly to her esteem. It’s interesting, I remember administering this test with youngins several years ago and I was always excited to see what sex the kids would draw first….and then looking for differences between GLBT and straight parents. (The majority of kids will draw a person of the same sex as them FIRST….if they’re not drawing not themselves. Some of my colleagues thought this would change in an environment where gender - not necessarily sex - was more fluid. Interestingly, it did not.)

Also, it looks like she took a good amount of time on it (at least enough to yawn afterwards!) That’s also an indication of good, positive energy towards the family. I’d look at it and say, “Wow, lots of love.” It’s a great drawing for such a wee one!

Okay - last thing….the fact that the ears look like they were an afterthought and added on later? TOTALLY a normal thing to leave them out. Then, to realize it and go back? I love it! What fun to see that they’re drawn in a different color!

Not a surprise, but from that, it looks like you have a really well-adjusted, proud, happy and loving li’l monkey!

Thanks, Liza. And yeah, Chris, that was exactly what he was up to. If he could figure out how to uncap the pens he would. Instead he contents himself with pulling them all off the shelf and then kind of wiggling in place. Elsewhere, he’s already hoisting himself up to her “art table” and rubbing crayons back and forth on the table. Whatever she does, he’s going to do it. Plus a few extra things she never considered doing, like clambering up the bookcase and whatnot. Okay he hasn’t done that yet, but we are bracing ourselves (and the bookcase!) against that eventuality.

And hey, Shereen! If it’s true that the relative sizes denote self-esteem, then I am THRILLED. (A) Because the kids are both really big, and (b) because Baba is looming, god-like, if also Praying Mantis-like, at the margin.