Budding Artist?

Guard loves to follow Kate around and copy her.  Most of the time, she is quite accommodating.  Last week, while she was coloring (Kate loves to color!), Guard climbed up next to her, sat down right next to her on her chair and demanded a crayon by grunting.  Kate picked out a color for Guard and put a white sheet of paper in front of him.

 She created a coloring monster!

 Guard is now obsessed with coloring.  He wants to color dozens of times a day.  He takes me by the hand and drags me over to the crayon box (which is out of his reach) and grunts until I get out the huge box of mismatched crayons and markers. 

He sits at the table and colors and colors and colors.  We've gone through a lot of paper.

And he is happy.

Really happy.

Really proud of himself.

So, his mom lets him color whenever he wants (because who could resist that smile?).

He's getting pretty good for an almost 18-month old.