Look at how tiny she drew baby Asa!
After she drew this picture I did a google search of children's development by drawing. From what I read, there are very distinct stages that children pass through as they become more skilled at holding a writing utensil and as their brain communicates with their hand.
First stage = scribbling (we've got that down pat)
Second stage = appearance of round shapes (this is why Montessori starts with cursive)
Third stage = identification of objects in their scribbles and round shapes
Fourth stage = Faces and people appear, and as one website said "Hilariously for us as parents, pictures of people nearly always start without any body at all – so the arms and legs spring straight out of the head."
Fifth stage = Pictures sit on a baseline with identifiable objects
Sixth stage = Perspective and scale, this is when drawing becomes "hard" because it needs to look "right"
It appears that Lyla is in the fourth stage - mostly reported to happen around age 4. Woo hoo, she's advanced for her age! She can draw alien people.
I do have to say though that this is one of my favorite drawings ever made by her and I almost (well, maybe I did) cried when Tommy used it to write a grocery list. It was near the recycle paper so it wasn't his fault but it was a little crushing for me.
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