My granddaughter, Teagan, visited with me today. Teagan is 5 years old. She will be 6 on the first day of spring, my favorite day of the year. Teagan is my oldest grandchild and my only granddaughter. I always tell her she's my favorite granddaughter. And she is!
I recently had my kitchen redone and one of the walls is painted with black chalk board paint and set up as a message center. But, it has really turned out to be my grandchildren's art center. I like it better than a message center. Whenever my grandchildren visit they always draw some amazing picture or write their name or doodle something that I find amazing and admire it long after they have gone home.
Teagan has a wonderful imagination. I just love to see what she will come up with next. One time she drew directions from her house to my house on the chalk board. I didn't erase it for a long time. Teagan also likes to sing and dance and tell stories. She has give me untold pleasure since the day she was born. My nick name for her is "Baby Girl". Sometimes she gets mad when I call her Baby Girl and will demand that I call her Teagan. Lately she seems to have grown used to it.
Good thing, because I think it's a nick name that is going to stick.
Today, as usual, Teagan drew a very large picture on the chalk board. She told me it was the Earth. It looked like the Earth! She had even drawn several continents on the earth. The biggest continent she drew was North America and she explained to me that she lived there. I was blown away! Mind you, Teagan is only 5 years old. Teagan also drew the moon and a pink planet that she called the Pink Bunny planet. She told me that the pink bunnies ate pink grass on the Pink Planet. I found that extremely imaginative and amazing all at once. (Can you tell she's my favorite granddaughter? :)
Finally, Teagan said she wanted to draw stars but she told me she had trouble doing it. So, of course, Grammie came to the rescue. I drew a 5 point star and showed her how to do it. She was intrigued and ran to get the step stool so she could practice drawing stars above the Earth. She caught on very quickly and was very pleased with herself. She drew lots of stars in the universe.
To date this is my favorite drawing on the chalk board. I will not erase it for a while. I think someday Baby Girl will make a perfect Air Companion. Don't you?
she is so cute and so smart!
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