Work of Art

Ava drew this today and I felt like sharing. In fact, this might become a regular installment on my blog: "Art of the Week" or something like that. Both the kids draw so many nice pictures. I find some of their pictures amazing. Probably all kids draw the same stuff they do, but to me these seem extremely advanced. Of course, I'm not prejudiced in any way...
Anyway, the picture above is of our family, plus the neighbor that lives across the street and his dog. I'll go left to right. Lucas is easy to spot wrapped in a blue blanket with an orange hat on his head because "it is windy outside" explains Ava. I am the orange figure holding Lucas, and the only person without a face, which might mean something significant that will come out in therapy years down the road. The yellow blob to the left of me is Java, the dog. Ava is the largest figure on the page, in purple (hmmm, doesn't every child have an egocentric streak?) Nate is the short blue person to her left. The tall blue person is Java's owner (our neighbor), and the tall grey person is Daddy. The sun smiles down on us all. This is a scene common outside our house on a nice spring evening. Our neighbor almost always brings Java over for a visit in our front yard. The kids run around playing while Cody and the neighbor talk. Lucas and I only come out occasionally, so it was nice of Ava to include us in the drawing.