Surpassed Us Already

As a parent, you always feel such pride when your kids do something great or accomplish something you never did. I'm envious of the way Emily can forgive easily and marches to the beat of her own drum. I wish I was more like Ben in his caring nature and how he puts others before himself. Noah, well he's just brand new.

But, it's a little humbling when one of your children have already surpassed you in an area of life. Neither David or I are good at drawing. We make stick figures and stick dogs and it's really pretty sad.

Here's a drawing I did when I was in Kindergarten like Ben. Apparently, the top corner was used for scratch paper. This was probably a "masterpiece" for me.

Here's a drawing David did when he was about 7.

That's about as good as it gets for us.

Not for Ben though. Ben is an artist. He loves to draw. Not color, he rarely uses a coloring book. He prefers to pull out my paper tray on the printer, grab a piece of paper and start creating. Of course, everything is a superhero theme.

Here was The Joker because he had to draw something with the letter J for school.

Most every drawing is of Spiderman. The kid loves all superheros, but he's partial to Spiderman. He came home from school last week and spent an hour drawing this.

One day, we will go to New York and I'll take him to see Spiderman Turn Off The Dark on Broadway. I can just imagine his amazement watching that play. And I know he'll be in awe of the buildings in New York. He drew this picture last night. That's him as Spiderman, complete with glasses and all.

He's making a book called "A World Without Superheroes". Where all superheroes die, and I'm sure will come back to life because you know, they are super and all. I wish I could live in his head for a day. I think it's a magical place.