3-2-1...Blastoff!!!

We are leaving for our semi- annual trip to Baja soon.  The boys just love this place.  It is paradise for them.  They run up and down the beach, swim, fish, eat fish tacos, build sandcastles and sand tracks for their cars; we really have to drag them away.

One of the things they always look forward to is shooting off rockets. This is my younger son's rocket.  He wanted lots of color so he could find it in the bushes. Smart boy.

My older son, of course, picks the really big rocket.  Complete with animal graphics.  But that wasn't good enough.  He had to have me paint teeth and eyes on the side too.  "Now it looks like a tiger", he says.

So now with their rockets ready, they are all set to go.  They can't wait!

Ian's Army Rocket

Ian, my 6 year, drew this picture at school the other day.  Ian is not one to sit and color, or create pictures and will sometimes complain about art lessons.   He consistently comes home with schoolwork that he has barely colored.  NOT, something an artist mom likes to deal with.  However, every once in a great while, he sits for a period of time and creates something really cool.  In fact, when he brought this home, I thought it was accidentally stuck in his folder from some other kid that made the drawing.

I thought I'd share this piece because it was an interesting picture depicting an "army rocket", as he called it, taking off.  He wanted to show action so he drew a little piece above the rocket.  Very clever.  I asked him why he chose to have it raining and he simply said, "it was a gloomy day".  Yet the sun is coming out in the corner, shining it's rays.

I am a happy mom to display one of his art pieces.  Where the inspiration came from I may never know.  It could be that he has a cousin in the army in Afghanistan, it could be that he was in the pretend rocketship at school.  It could be just a boy's imagination.