A couple of weeks ago Ellie was the Special Helper at preschool. One of the things she got to do was bring a big bag home to put a special toy or something into and then the next school day all the other kids were going to ask questions to try and guess what was inside. Ellie decided to give the person who guessed correctly a prize. At first it was a little blank piece of paper that she said they could draw on. After I suggested that it might be more meaningful if she drew something on it first, she ran off with her markers and came back with this:

She drew a connect the dots picture for the winner to complete. The picture is a tree with one branch (requiring a new number “1” for the branch). Ellie is always trying to think up of activities for everyone else to do and I thought this one was very clever and very sweet.

On the darker side, Ellie was playing a drawing game with my ipod. It has a bunch of little stamps that you can put on the screen. Things like kittens, hearts, flowers… nice stuff.

She created this:

I asked her what the picture was and she said “Someone went for a walk, and someone died.”

Either she or I need counselling.