The week’s themes at school for both kids has been all about themselves, and today they came home with self portraits that they’d drawn of themselves.

I love the big smile that Connor drew on his image, and that little tuft of hair at the top of Bradley’s head made me smile.  Bradley was quite proud to point out the shark tooth around his neck… LOL not sure where that comes from.

* My Every Day project is my 2012 year-long project reflecting my life and things around me

I took the boys to Artjamming in Blu Bird centre today for them to paint canvases for their rooms.  They LOVED it, and I love how the canvases turned out.

When we got there, Pam asked us whether the boys wanted to use pictures as templates.  Connor said yes, and chose an aeroplane.  Bradley however, was adamant that he wanted to paint the picture he had in his head… a house.

I think both are awesome.  For a 3 year old, I think the red plane and green clouds on Connor’s painting are awesome, and the brown streaks are apparently water because it’s a water plane.  He did the WHOLE thing himself. Even the windows with people in it.

As for Bradley’s… I LOVE the tree… it looks like those African flat topped trees in the veld.  Also love the way he stuck to his guns about having a gold and silver house.  It works.  When Beauty saw it when she got home, she commented how he was an african boy

After Connor finished, we went next door to Col’Cacchios and had divine pizzas while Bradley finished his… it was an awesome afternoon, and I’m definitely taking them back there!

See the full set of 2010 photo-a-day photos on my Project 365 Flickr Set.

Bradley is going on a school outing today… I hope he remembers this picture that he drew at school

He took these yesterday after I took the photos of Elaine.  He’s developing quite a good eye… these were all taken with my 50mm lens. Not bad for a 5 year old hey?!

He was quite funny afterwards when I was looking at the photos he’d taken and I’d commented on how good they were: “It’s easy Mommy, all you have to do is stand veeeery still and click… and then your photos will be perfect… like mine!”

Granny and Papa – I just have to coach him with people shots a bit.

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The only way I could get Bradley to pose for the photos on Sunday (he wasn’t that willing), was to let him take photos with my camera for a while.  We both took photos of the same yellow flowers… I have no idea what kind of flower it is.

A 5 year old’s view of the yellow flowers

… and my version of the same flowers