She identified those lines at the bottom as legs and that stuff in the middle as eyes, nose, mouth, and ears. And, she said, tracing the outer edges of it with her finger, "circle."
She has only recently started doing this or maybe I have only recently started noticing. My mom said she's been doing "eyes" and "nose" and "mouth" for her on the chalkboard for a few weeks, after getting some help with the circle.
I remember photographing Emily's first drawing (that I noticed!), also on the chalkboard, ours, at 2 years, 4 months (Penny is 2 years, 3 months). I was struck by the similarity.
Emily was apparently more into hair (she drew hair like this, straight up in the air, for a while) than legs.
Maybe all kids start out drawing this way; probably they do. And Penny is always watching Emily draw and scribbling (but she's a lefty!) on her own paper while doing so. Emily now draws like this.
I loved to draw as a kid, all the way up through AP Art in high school, when I realized I had some skill but not a whole lot of vision. There were artists in my class, and I wasn't one. This was self-realized and I was okay with that (by then I wanted to be a writer!). I'm not going to pull a My Kid Could Paint That, but I do hope they keep drawing, even if it means my printer paper has to be replaced a bit more often.
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