Anri loves to draw, and for a while it was a challenge to keep her confined to pads of paper rather than walls, windows, furniture and appliances. Over the last several weeks, things have been really busy here, with not much time to sit down and update the website. But what I saw after coming home from work today prompted me to get this out to everyone.

Check this out. According to Tomomi, Anri did this on her own (Only the name and date were written by me).



In recent months, Anri has drawn many pictures of herself, her family and friends, but none of the drawings have been done in this kind of detail. It is worth noting that she was wearing a little cotton pink dress when she drew this. Perhaps this is just silly pride on the part of a parent, but this amazed me when I saw it.

She has also been keeping her own little picture diary for over a month now. Every day she sits down with me and I ask her what she did that day. She tells me (in her own little way) and I write it all down and date it. Then below that, she has a big space on the page to draw a picture of the day's events. She absolutely loves doing this and, best of all, it helps her to remember her day to day activities and the relevant English vocabulary.

Some day she'll be writing about her activities on her own, but for now, she just loves to draw!