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OK - a simple documentary here - I was amazed to learn that Penny completed these on her own this week. Of course, there are plenty more puzzles which jump over the lines quite a bit more liberally, but her general rule is to follow the paths...

Puzzle #1

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Puzzle #2

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Following on from last week's pseudo-monster, Penny hit the charcoal again. I only found out today that this time she drew the whole picture herself.

Thus, we have three charcoal portraits on A4 copy paper.

Me #1

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The reddish splotches through the middle were marks on the paper.

Ame

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I am deducing that this is Amelie, her sister (whom we mostly call "Ame"). If you look at the text, it looks like "EAM" with the "E" rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise. I suspect she wrote the "AM" part, but then hit the end of the page, so added the "E" to the start (and turned it) - which is a process she has done numerous times with her own name ("PEA" - yes, that gives "APE").

and lastly, a second self-portrait...

Me #2


I haven't enquired as to the structure at left, but this one has a nose :-)

Alas - I call this "Monster" because I need an excuse to have this illustration fit in with this week's theme from our friends over at www.illustrationfriday.com - but in all honesty, I think it's a thing of beauty!

Having recently visited a local school which has a preschool program, Kat decided to adopt one of their art exercises for our little Penny. Kat was to paint half a face on a nice A1 piece of art paper, and Penny would complete the other half.

This was Penny's first foray into charcoals, and I dare say she loved it! :)

Untitled

Aged: 3y6m



As with all good stories however, there's more to it than that.

The thing is, when Kat drew the first half of the face, she drew it in portrait format; something like this:



However, Penny was sitting on her right hand side, and would have seen it side on; more like this:



And so you see how it is that the final picture came out as it did.



So this is "Monster" in the Frankenstein sense - even though I don't think so :) And I'm sure I'll be forgiven the loose association! :)

You can see that she's finished the face, added the neck, then she used her palms to rub charcoal into the paper for the body. She looooved that bit! Her hands were completely black and her grin went from ear to ear :) I didn't ask about the dark band at the top, but I suspect it's a hat.

Today's second post is another quotable quote.

Penny's pre-school is linked with a church, and her class is learning two songs to perform at this week's church service. When asked by her mum how it was going she replied that it was good; she had learnt all the words already.

So Mum asked what the songs were.

"Rejoice, and Allelu"

"Oh; How does 'Allelu' go?"

"Allelu, allelu, allelu, allelu,
Crazy's the Lord!!"

Amidst stifled laughter, "Ahem - are you sure you don't mean 'Praise ye the Lord'?"

A moment's quiet contemplative reflection, then...

"Allelu, allelu, allelu, allelu,
Crazy's the Lord!!"

:)

OK - working backwards here... Unfortunately, there will be a few posts under today's date, when in reality, events have happened over the past few weeks. Part of the reason is not having a camera handy :(

So - when Penny was asking for more of those "peas" at dinner time tonight, I broke it to her that they were not peas, but baked beans.

After a moment's consideration I said - "you know, there's a poem about baked beans - see if you can finish it off;

"Baked Beans are good for your heart,
Baked Beans will make you"

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"Smart!" says she! :)