Avery the Artist

Avery has begun to dabble in several forms of art. She accidentally discovered domino art while playing with her dominoes one day. She was simply moving them around and all of the sudden shouted, "Hey, that's Mr. Krab" (a character from the SpongeBob show). She seemed to have been absolutely shocked, as if the dominoes had magically arranged themselves into a Mr. Krab form, but then proceeded to take control of the artwork and purposely created a SpongeBob figure next to Mr. Krab: A Closeup of SpongeBob Domino Art:

Next, Avery has taken on painting. Her first official portrait is a painting of Grandpa Curt on the back of his Father's Day card. She continued to replicate this form in several of her subsequent works, but then grew bored with the concept:


She then moved on to the ever-so-complex spoon design. This particular work is a portrait of Daddy:


Satisfied with her spoon assortment, she next created a spoon replica of me:


And finished off with the leftover play silverware to create a "spoon" Avery. (She then continued to attempt to make an Addie silverware figure, but ran out of materials and refused my offer to use popsicle sticks as a replacement):


Finally, she has chosen to add architectural skills to her resume. She loves building playgrounds from the blocks that Keith's brother Michael and my brother Adam gave to her for birthday gifts. Usually, she has her Polly Pocket dolls jump around and slide on them, but occasionally she mixes it up and allows other toy animal and people collections to join in on the fun. Building a playground for all-day usage has become essential to her morning routine, and I often wonder why I even bother putting the blocks away at night:





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