Last week Gadget Guy took Doodle Boy to Target to buy him a new doodle board. Officially it's called a Magna-doodle, but somewhere along the way we started calling it the doodle board and that name stuck and became, as you can tell, the root of DB's nickname on here. Since the age of two, he's been doodling on almost a daily basis. In fact, DB could draw before he could talk.
Instead of a blanket or stuffed animal, the doodle board is DB's security item and it's gone everywhere with us. Whatever is his current interest gets sketched out and depicted on doodle board; obsessions which have included the alphabet, shapes, animals, Spongebob, Mario brothers, and now, Pokemon.
Because of the impermanence of the medium, we started taking pictures of his work. So often he would draw something rather impressive and the SWOOP, he'd erase it and draw something else.
Here he is at 2.
We were pretty surprised when he drew this picture (which he deemed a self-portrait) just before this 3rd birthday. I've always thought the buttons and the collar were particularly nice touches.
And here he is around 4. He was big into drawing animals. He draws on paper now too, but he still prefers his Doodle Board. I suppose he'll eventually stop using it, and that will be a sad day, but I hope that won't be the end of his doodling.
This is a lot like a scrapbook!
Posted by: Jeni | June 21, 2008 at 01:18 PM