So, when I play around with our Etch A Sketch, I do amazing things like make staircases and trees. My skills are limited. However, Amelie seems to have some kind of natural gift for it. Without spending much time on it in the past, she whipped it out last week and produced these:

A cat. (Calder added his car for effect)

A waving monkey.

Today she made this one:

Standing cat.

There’s something strangely compelling about these little drawings. They don’t take her very long either. I guess this is what these toys are meant for. My vision for the possibilities has just always been fenced in by my lack of ability and patience.