Last month, Ada really started taking to painting.  Its the first thing she wants to do when she arrives at preschool.  And she proudly tells me, “I am going to make a painting for you”.  We’ve been lining up her paintings and swapping them out with new ones on the dining room table each night, where we can enjoy them.  She uses all the colors, painting on layer on top of the next, so what she makes ends up being a little grey, blue, brown abstract blob-circle-swirly painting.  They look something like this.

In the last week, Ada has started changing how she paints and draws.  Now, in the last week she is testing a lot.  And experimenting.  First she’s been practicing coloring different colors inside the lines of her coloring books.  At school she is  very excited about trying out all the colors separately with her brush.  This is one of her recent paintings.

It is neat to watch all of these developments pop up and come out.  You can almost feel the ‘intensity of the vibration’ coming out of her, as she learns.  Being around her, you see these innate drivers that send her focused into different deep specific tasks over time.  From line-ups to painting, she is very excited to learn, sort, try, organize, and experiment…