Dennis is very fortunate to have a very special person in his life, and that person is his Godfather, who also happens to be my uncle and his great-uncle. Uncle Denny sure got a lot of attention from Dennis this weekend--he wanted to be wherever his uncle was and he wanted to climb in his lap constantly. He loves Uncle Denny very much, but he also happens to love the fact that Uncle Denny always carries a nice ink pen in his pocket, a pen that's easily accessible to little hands. Dennis must have grabbed that pen two dozen times in the past couple of days. He didn't write with it; he just ran around the house with it, holding it alternately in his hands or mouth. Today he even started bringing the pen back to Uncle Denny when he was finished with it.
One of the pictures shows Dennis with the painting that he did for Uncle Denny's birthday gift. We celebrated our birthdays together this year and I hope we'll do so again and again in the coming years. Dennis painted the picture with his fingers and his technique has really changed since the last painting he did. He's a bit more minimalist these days, and he actually used his fingers to move the paint along the canvas this time rather than just dabbing it like before. He worked in acrylic paint again this time (it washes off baby hands with water), and he tried his best to taste each color. He chose which colors to use and where to put them, and it turned out to be a pretty interesting masterpiece. I wonder if we have a budding artist in the family. Or maybe he just enjoyed the opportunity to get messy...
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