{"id":1743,"date":"2011-04-17T21:58:18","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T04:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/?p=1743"},"modified":"2011-04-17T22:22:12","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T05:22:12","slug":"my-little-picasso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/my-little-picasso\/","title":{"rendered":"My Little Picasso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/xangelle\/5630240532\/\" title=\"IMG_1090 by Xangelle, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5063\/5630240532_3ce7b3a365_z.jpg?resize=640%2C640\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" alt=\"IMG_1090\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Judah loves to color.  I don&#8217;t remember exactly how we figured this out, but one day Judah got a hold of a pen and the rest is history.<\/p>\n<p>I think&#8230;..I remember one day when I was making a weekly menu plan, something distracted me; and he grabbed my pen and started scribbling in my notebook.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/xangelle\/5630240996\/\" title=\"IMG_1091 by Xangelle, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5304\/5630240996_53326ff70c_z.jpg?resize=640%2C640\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" alt=\"IMG_1091\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting to me, and we are encouraging it as much as possible, because I don&#8217;t remember any of my other boys being this interested in drawing or coloring.  <\/p>\n<p>The other two boys never really showed any interest in anything to do with pens or pencils or coloring&#8230;..it just wasn&#8217;t their thing&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/xangelle\/5629658915\/\" title=\"IMG_1092 by Xangelle, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5148\/5629658915_e9444d2b16_z.jpg?resize=640%2C640\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" alt=\"IMG_1092\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>But Judah seems to really enjoy seeing the marks that he can make on the paper.  At this point, he will use either hand to color even though, he seems a bit stronger with his right hand.  Mind you, if you try to take the pen out of his left hand and put it into his right hand&#8230;..he is NOT happy about that.  There is a lot of screaming and general upset-ed-ness&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/xangelle\/5629659371\/\" title=\"IMG_1094 by Xangelle, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5109\/5629659371_3212aa6a10_z.jpg?resize=640%2C640\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" alt=\"IMG_1094\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I wonder if he&#8217;s gonna grow up to be an artist or&#8230;&#8230;if he&#8217;s just really gonna enjoy coloring?  We&#8217;ll just have to wait and see.<\/p>\n<p>(<em>part 2 is still coming&#8230;..I promise<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judah loves to color. I don&#8217;t remember exactly how we figured this out, but one day Judah got a hold of a pen and the rest is history. I think&#8230;..I remember one day when I was making a weekly menu plan, something distracted me; and he grabbed my pen and started scribbling in my notebook. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/my-little-picasso\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My Little Picasso&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-judah"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1743"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1748,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions\/1748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}