Happy Birthday, Victor!

Happy Birthday, Victor!

My boy turned 6 today! This isn't a perfect cake drawing, but who cares. I was thrilled to draw it for him no matter how it turned out. I knew last week sometime that I'd be drawing this today and have been looking forward to it since then.

This time I absolutely loved that he helped out. Those are his swirls on the front. And I watched with admiration of his attention to detail as he added "smoke" above the candles.

I'm so proud of him and so excited for him to turn 6 today after so many weeks and months of build up. This is a big milestone for him and I can't wait to celebrate with him after school. What a great day!

What if my name was bitten out of a cookie?

What if my name was bitten out of a cookie?

Turns out he did notice the feet and has become curious about the process. I talked to him about being creative and doing something more than just writing his name on the bag like everyone else does. I talked to him about challenging myself to come up with new ways to draw his name. He took the idea to a whole new level. While I was just thinking about how to write his actual name in different ways using different styles of letter forms, he showed that he's way more creative than I am.

"What if my name was bitten out of a cookie?" I wasn't sure exactly what he meant when he first said it. I wasn't sure how to draw it either. And wasn't thinking of drawing actual things in addition to writing his name. He ended up taking the Sharpie. He didn't like how his name turned out (see it in the top part of the crunch) and didn't think it was visible enough, so he rewrote it on the cookie too.