I picked up a pile of artwork from daycare, as his file was overflowing. I love that the teachers keep every little thing, but that puts a lot of pressure on me to decide whether it's ok to throw any of it away. Like a piece of black construction paper with two chalk lines on it. Shawn would probably kill me if he knew I threw some of the artwork away, but I'm just not the pack-rat he is. So as I flipped through the pile, a few things jumped out at me. There was this paper plate decorated with a bunch of string, yarn, marker colors, and one of those big round wiggly eyeballs they sell at the craft stores. I immediately thought that was supposed to be a self portrait and laughed at the lone eyeball and the fact that it was placed down by the ear, if the yarn was in fact hair. Then there was a project on shapes. There was a big square with the word HOUSE, triangle with the word ROOF, rectangle with the word DOOR, and another square with the word WINDOW. I envisioned the teachers talking about your house and showing the kids where each shape goes, then giving the kids one shape at a time, letting them place it accordingly. Tyler's window was directly on top of the door which was pasted on top of the roof which was upside down at the bottom of the house. Definitely a keeper! I did make a correlation though, because about two weeks ago he started talking about "Home" so I turned the project over and saw the date of October 21. That's pretty cool.