serious artists

Lily and Kate have been coloring since they were around one. It's always been cute and they've always liked it, but in the past few weeks they've really embraced their coloring time. They take it very seriously. I am hard-pressed to get a photo of Kate other than...

She's sooo focused.

And Lily wears her concentration scowl most of the time.

Once in a while, I can get them to look up smile.

Or show me what they've been working on.

I have to psyche myself a bit for announcing that we will be putting the crayons or markers away because it can get a bit noisy in here at that point. But I always promise we'll color some more later or tomorrow. As they get older they grasp the notion of doing this again. That helps...most of the time.