halloween cards

it has been pretty rainy here so we have been indoors more often than not. stamping is one of calvin's favorite things to do, and he asked to make halloween cards the other day (he actually asked to make halloween thank you cards because it seems that whenever we write cards they are thank you cards and i am afraid that he thinks all cards are for saying thanks...) so we dusted off our halloween stamps and set to work on cards that were not thank you cards.

i love that his drawings are starting to be recognizable. here he drew several pumpkins (some upside down because sometimes the paper was upside down...) and the tall thing in the middle is a birdhouse. earlier in the day we put up a birdhouse that we bought at the agricultural fair awhile back. we (sam) put it just outside our dining room window and as we were sitting in the dining room making these cards, calvin looked out and drew the birdhouse and the branch it is hanging on. i loved watching him draw as he looked at his drawing, then out the window at the birdhouse, then back to his drawing. he is starting to understand that his writing can have meaning, which for a literacy teacher, be stills my heart.