Skip to main content

Soren's Hobbies


Soren has spent the last several months perfecting his artwork.  Like he used to practice standing up or walking---over and over and over--he now practices drawing for hours every day.  His hands are always covered in marker and my floors are always covered in paper but his effort is paying off.  There has been a marked improvement in the past couple of weeks; now his drawings are recognisable! 
He has gone from making rudimentary scribbles (self-identified as shapes and letters) to much more complicated drawings.  The above picture is of a prehistoric landscape featuring two different dinosaurs and various scenery elements.  He also enjoys drawing the latter-day prophets (especially Joseph Smith and John Taylor), compliments of his Uncle Brinton.  I have a harder time recognising the prophets but they are definitely people-shaped.

Soren's other favorite thing to do is sing.  Luckily, he can sing and draw at the same time.  I started teaching him some of the primary songs for this year's program and he was surprisingly excited about it.  He now knows more of the verses for "Follow the Prophet" and "Book of Mormon Stories" than I do.  He sings while he draws, he sings while he walks, he sings in the tub and the car and the stroller.  The tunes are a little mangled but the words are clear.  I love to hear him singing everywhere we go.
Labels:

Comments

Oozaroo said…
Oh my goodness, at my house he sang that Dinosaur song all the time, and I had it in my head for DAYS!! (But I love to hear him sing.)
April 27, 2010 at 1:32 AM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

What Works for Us: Room Time

I've decided to do a new series of posts on how I make parenting work for us. Every parent does it differently--which is great!--but I have a hard time keeping my discoveries to myself. The things I do may not work for anyone else but I want to record them and remember them. Hopefully, it will also help me vent my soap-box-y-ness so that I'm not always imposing my ideas on other people. That will be what "What-Works-for-Us Posts" are about. One of the things that we have always done, but has made a HUGE difference in the move from one to two children, is Room Time . When Soren was 6 months old, I started having him play alone (in a safe place) every day for a few minutes. At first it was only five minutes in the port-a-crib but we quickly worked up to fifteen, then thirty. At that time, I used those precious minutes to do housework or relax on the couch. When I was pregnant with Carl, Soren would play alone for about an hour in his room and I would usually tak
2 comments
Read more

Surrounded by Love

One of my greatest worries about having four children was that I would not be able to welcome and love my new baby as well as I had the others.  Now that he is here, I feel that he is perhaps the most welcomed and best loved of all my sons.  More on that in a moment. I struggled to bond with Leif in utero, in part because pregnancy was old hat to me and in part because life was busy with too many other things.  The new miracle  growing inside of me was the most normal thing about my life.  There were a few good moments that helped me prepare mentally: doing guided meditations during Christmas vacation, my blessingway on January 6th, and a really good conversation I had with Scott about my hopes and worries.  But mostly, my mind was elsewhere. And then there was the birth.  I should have known that it would be a totally unique experience and that it would prepare me for this totally unique child. Needless to say, I'm crazy about the little guy. Scott has also really taken
1 comment
Read more

ABCs

A couple of months ago I was trying to encourage Soren to draw. For 15 or 20 minutes every afternoon, we would sit at the coffee table with paper and pencil. I would draw stick figures and doodles; Soren would watch, his own paper untouched. After a couple of days repeating my usual pictures over and over, I ran out of ideas and started writing the letters of his name. One day I wrote and drew pictures of all the things I could think of that began with S: Soren, snake, superman, spider, stars, etc. The next day we focused on the letter O. It gave me ideas for drawing, which kept Soren entertained even if it wasn't fulfilling its original purpose. A couple more weeks went by and I didn't put any effort into reinforcing the letters. So I was very surprised when, one day while reading a naptime story, he pointed to the page and said very distinctly, "ess". He was, in fact, pointing to an S. And he was very excited about it. So, instead of reading the book, we sp
3 comments
Read more