Gabe really loves to draw. Not color, draw. He doesn't try to fill in any pictures or cover the paper with color. He meticulously draws circles (or "O's," as he calls them), lines and "stars." I have never seen a toddler who is so precise with a pen or crayon. Gabe knows where we keep the construction paper and crayons, so he helps himself to them throughout the day, or to whatever paper we shouldn't have left lying around. I found a paper Chad wrote in the last week of his mission about his long term goals, and Gabe had drawn tiny circles all over the letters. If I want to keep him happy in the grocery store, I just hand him my planner and a pen and let him go nuts. Sometimes he will come up to me during the day and ask me to write his name on his creation and then after I finish he does the sign for butterfly, which is the one thing he knows I can doodle. Such a unique and neat little boy already. He is getting a MagnaDoodle for Christmas.
