Triangles

The other day we were practicing drawing triangles (because Phoebe struggles with triangles and anything triangular...like the letter A, for example). I put three dots on the page for her and she practiced connecting the dots, resting her felt pen between strokes to get a nice angle in there. 

It's a work in progress. 

Sometimes she's really into practicing her writing and sometimes she's not. On this particular day she was a little not into it and I asked her why and she told me that triangles are useless because they aren't people and she just wants to learn how to draw people. 

Fair. 

So I turned one of my triangles into a little girl by adding a circle for a head and little stick arms and legs and...she was very impressed and drew one of her own. 

And then decided giving a hand-drawn person a body and a head felt like too much work and defaulted to her favourite "hody" form where the head is the body and the body is the head: 

In related news, we had hot dogs for dinner yesterday and Phoebe kept calling them "hotties" (with a nice, soft T sound, so more like "hodies") and it was both awful and hilarious (or hilariously awful). 

And now we can't stop calling hot dogs "hotties."

Anyway, she was really proud of her little "hody" people (as she should be because she worked hard on those triangles). Here she is showing off some additions to her drawing (while I was helping Alexander with some math work):

And here's her picture with even more people:

Today she asked to practice drawing triangles again. I'll have to find that picture because although we were practicing triangles, she decided that rectangles were also pretty cool to draw—you need four dots instead of three and even though she's three right now she is going to be four on her birthday (so it makes sense to draw a shape with four corners)—but I still wanted her to practice those triangle kind of angles a little bit more so I showed her how to draw a house by putting a triangle roof on top of a rectangle and she was like, "This is so cool. I'm going to make a whole row of rectangle houses with triangle roofs and they will be townhouses because they're all stuck together."

And I'd like to know how she knows that. 

But she honestly drew some lovely town houses.