I think it would be fairly safe to say that Reuben and Joshua are currently mildly obsessed with two BBC CBeebies TV programmes at the moment: Balamory and In the Night Garden.
In fact, whenever they see a pad of paper and a pen they will pick up the pen and thrust it into my hand with the instruction “More Daisy!”
Upsy Daisy is a character on In the Night Garden. I’m getting quite good at drawing her, to be honest. Until I realised that Reuben and Joshua don’t really care about details. As soon as I’ve drawn Daisy’s oval head and added some Medusa-like strands of hair Joshua will steal the pen back: “No! My!” and start to scribble over what I’ve just drawn.
Jane looked at my pad the other day and laughed. “What on earth would a psychologist make of that picture?” she joked.
What indeed!
That’s a very crude depiction of Igglepiggle and Upsy Daisy with erm… additions by Joshua (red, blue and green) and Reuben (black).
Igglepiggle looks more like a sad Panda king!
In The Night Garden is AMAZING to watch when you are not well, same with The Magic Roundabout. Gives you the warm happy feelings. 🙂 Also, as a psychologisteee, I wouldn’t worry too much about what they’d think. You are happy, the boys are happy and so is Jane so why worry! 😀
Thanks Cabbage. The picture does look a bit scary though, you have to agree. 🙂
Brilliant.
Now I want to learn animation so they can try to escape the scribbles.