Happy Mother

L just drew this picture for me tonight. He was supposed to be drawing a happy birthday picture for his grandpa, but he brought this to me and said first he had drawn a picture for me! I love this one--he said it is a mama sitting on the couch. She has a big smile because "she is happy to be having her baby." The placenta is in a bowl on the floor. Note the baby has an umbilical cord too. He then drew another one with just the baby's head showing and said, "there's no placenta in this one, because the baby isn't all the way out yet."

More Art from 4 Year Old!

My four year old prolific artist son drew the following two pictures for me on Valentine's Day (no prompting, he just occasionally draws birth pictures). The first is just a standard pregnant woman. The second he said was me giving birth to him with "Daddy watching." He couldn't explain what the shape underneath was supposed to be really. I said, "tell me about that part of the drawing" and he was kind of blank acting and then said, "oh, its the moon." I like how in that picture the baby is coming out. I think that is a neat touch. I asked why I had so many eyes and he said the second row is my mouth (teeth maybe?).

Birth Art by Four Year Old

A couple of weeks ago, my four year old son surprised me with these two cute drawings! I am intrigued by how the baby and mother match in each case—in the first drawing the mother has colored in eyes and so does her baby and in the other the mother has big white eyes and so does the baby and they’re looking the same direction.