Tuesday, March 28, 2006
The New Fridge Door
Blogging is the new Refrigerator Door:
Blogging is the new "marks on the wall":
¶ Tuesday, March 28, 2006 
| Max is still not painting very representationally. At school, they just paint watercolors across the whole paper; at home, Max has a tendency to ask me for help making specific shapes, at least once or twice, then he improvises. Recently, we were painting penguins (still his favorite animal, of course; we've added And Tango Makes Three to our collection of "chick"-lit) and after we collaborated on a few (in various reds and blues), this was his independent effort. |  |
| Sometimes Max just likes to experiment with colors, and the watercolor acrylics are great for mixing and layering. There's about 20 layers of paint here, and he only stopped because he ran out of colors and the paper (a big roll of calculator paper) was starting to disintegrate. If he did this on canvas, and we gave it a really abstruse title, it'd sell for .... dollars, at least. |  |
| Max still has the performing bug, too. Over at his friend Kaj's house last week, Max was MC'ing the premier of a new movie: kind of a cross between Singin' In The Rain and March of the Penguins... |  |
Blogging is the new "marks on the wall":
 | Max can stand flat on his feet and put his chin on top of the kitchen bar. Of course, when we moved in he could walk clean under it. He can also reach the bottom edge of the CD rack on the wall -- the one we put up to keep his CDs out of his reach -- and open the gate on the front door by himself. |
 | Of course, his former diaper table no longer fits. Not even close! Its new function is as a multi-level home for his stuffed animals, temporarily evicted in the process of searching for the rightful owners to some of their recently laundered clothes. |
