stick figures

This summer Emma Jane has been drawing stick people and animals.  It all started with a porcupine.  She drew a circle with lines coming out all around it and called it a porcupine.  Whether or not she intentionally drew the porcupine or just decided that's what her artwork resembled, we will never know!  She's been drawing stick figures ever since.  I like the way she narrates as she draws..."this is an awm, this is a weg, here's the mouf, this is the bewwybutton" and so on. 

The other day she drew her first picture of Paul.  The drawing below is, in her words, "the perfect picture of daddy".  She insisted I draw a shirt for him, so the green "shirt" is my only feeble contribution.  If you look closely, you can see that she drew all the usual body parts:  head, arms, legs, eyes, mouth, and hair (even though Paul doesn't have much!).  I asked her if the line she drew above daddy's eyes was supposed to be eyebrows and she quickly replied, "No, those are his winkles!"  This, of course, cracked me up because Paul does, indeed, have deep wrinkles in his forehead when he laughs or gives his "stern" look. 

This second drawing is one from earlier this summer.   It will be fun to see how Emma Jane's artistic abilities evolve over the next year.  For now, I will appreciate every last detail of these sweet stick figure drawings.