Our Little Pumpkin

     We've been teaching Madison how to use her scissors, and it is a lesson she really looks forward to.  Just look at her expression as she cuts into that orange sheet of paper!  She's using a pair of special scissors for beginners, and seems to be favoring that left hand again.  She uses both, but seems to have better success with the left hand.

     You're probably wondering what she's going to do with all the pieces of orange construction paper once she's made them into tinier pieces... well, we're glad you asked!

     She's making a nice little pumpkin for us - a work of art to hang on our refrigerator.  Mommy got the idea pretty quick, and Madison got into putting the orange pieces where they belong on the pumpkin.  She can get so focused on a certain thing, like using her scissors for example.   

     When she finished, she put it on the refrigerator so all the art critics can come by and take a look.  Just look at it!  Her latest artistic creation is a master stroke!  Just listen to the art critics' bold statements about her latest creation, called "Orange Pumpkin."  

     "If this masterpiece attains it's liveliness through careful placement of this orange mosaic at a conceptual level, a potent dynamism also operates within the composition in her style.  Broad areas are given counterpoint by devotion to fine, rhythmic detail which is more than just glue and construction paper."

     I have no idea what any of that means.  But I think they like it.