A little perspective!

The other day, Anna asked if she could paint.  She had gotten a few sheets of paper already and now needed her watercolors set up.  She wanted to draw "the world" for her grandma and asked me to draw grass and trees and a pond with lily pads so she could color them in.  So, I drew this:

And Anna painted it.

A little while later, Anna walked in with another piece of paper on which she had drawn a "copy" of what I had done for her.  She had drawn and painted a tree, lots of flowers, grass and a small little cirle of blue above them all.  Here's her work:

"See, Mama, I put the pond in.  It's small because it's more far away from everything."

That amazed me!  I had never taught her about that.  Maybe Grandma did, but I don't think so.  She already has a grasp of perspective in drawing and she's not even five yet!  Way to go, Anna!  :)

Crabby observation!

Heard in the car this evening on our way home from the mall:

Anna:  Mommy, when are we going to go to the Crab?
Me:  The what?
Anna:  The Red Crab!  See?  (points to the window)  That's a crab!
Me:  (following the finger's trajectory to the restaurant sign)  *laughs*  That's a lobster, honey.  That's called Red Lobster!  (Or Captain Fish as Grandpa Boss calls it.)

:)

The GPS Lady

My husband got a new GPS for his Christmas gift this year.  He has been playing with it for the last few days, taking it to work to see if one route is better than others, taking it to practice at church, etc.

On Sunday morning, we were joking around with the GPS "lady" who was trying to tell us the way to get to our church.  The prescribed route was to take the main street, Route 48, to Alex-Bell which is the street on which our church is located.  We, however, take the back roads.  So we were sort of joking each time the GPS recalculated the route.  No matter where we went, the GPS kept trying to get us to go back west to Route 48, which would take us further away from church.

From the back, we finally hear from Anna:  "That lady doesn't know it's Church Day!"