Drawing and Development

My last post was about drawing and brain development. This afternoon, I found a few  kindergarten self portraits from August 2008.

Both of the drawings below are by Olivia, a very talented and intelligent second grade artist. I'm missing her first grade self portrait, but the progress is so fun to see! Wouldn't it be great to collect a self-portrait of every child at the start of every school year and then view them all together? hmm...

Olivia, sad about saying "goodbye" to her mom on the first day of Kindergarten.

Olivia on the first day of second grade!