Today it was about what Mom does at work…devices that help the heart. So I took some time and explained to Nadia the functions of the heart.
The pumping, purification, veins, arteries…she was fascinated.
Here’s the final piece…hanging in my office now 🙂
Hope you all have a great memorial weekend!
Cheers,
Aruna
Lately Nadia has been taking the lead on a lot of art, craft ideas. Here is a paper dinosaur from her favorite book.
Draw, fold, cut…
Little bit of coloring…
Voila…a happy brachiosaurus with some grass to chow on!
Have a great week.
Cheers,
Aruna
Nadia has been asking to make a rocket for sometime now. Finally she gave up on me and made it herself! She glued some paper over our trusted cardboard rolls…
Red was her color of choice…
Added some designs…
I helped her tape 3 rolls together here and she cut a slit on the top one.
To infinity and beyond….
I love watching Nadia play…listening to her imaginary stories and her dialogues…Here, she has her star-wars characters setting sail on a new adventure. Of course Darth Vader is leading… This is the cardboard boat we made a while back…
Luke whispers to R2D2…that’s my dad at the helm…
Attach of the sea monster…it’s a body-less dinosaur 🙂
Oops Vader lost his head too…
We made this ship a while back…here is the post if you are interested.
Nadia always asks what we do at work. “Design Medical Devices”…what’s a medical device? I explained a bit about how devices help doctors and then we built an MRI machine…out of lego 🙂
Here she is building the scanner….we used a reference picture from the web to build this.
Here is the operator workspace…
Getting the patient prepped here…some contrast agent to help figure out what’s wrong.
And she is ready to get started!
Nadia had lots of fun with this one…
Have a great week!
Cheers,
Aruna
With the evenings getting warmer, we are spending more time in the backyard.
Drawing, coloring…
Here is a scene from Jungle book…that’s Bagheera and Mowgli…
Nadia is slowly becoming more independent with her ideas. I just provide the right amount of guidance necessary to ensure I don’t interrupt her creative process 🙂
Have a great weekend…
Cheers,
Aruna
Nadia is becoming more and more independent with her painting. I drew a Brachiosaurus and she took it on from there.
Started with green..
Added some mountains…
A sky…
Here’s the final version….
And my cute artist posing with her work 🙂
Have a great Monday!
Cheers,
Aruna
Temperatures are warming up…it’s been great working outdoors. Here Nadia is coloring an underwater scene.
Then she stuck it on the back of a box.
We are going to build an aquarium!
We cut out some cardboard fishes, snail and a crab.
Then we cut slits and stuck them on sticks.
They could then swim around and play with their little friends!
Hope you all have a great weekend and Mother’s day celebrations.
Cheers,
Aruna
A rainy cold weekend…painting was our go-to activity (as usual 🙂
I drew a sketch of Cloud gate, Chicago. Nadia said it looked like an alien spaceship and wanted to go see it soon.
Nadia did all of the painting by herself…choice of colors, the edges everything.
Now bits of green grass on the path…
Swirls of blue clouds in the skies…
Finally after it dried, she drew on glass windows…
Here’s the final version.
Have a fabulous week…it’s getting warmer in Milwaukee and it’s the month of May, my favorite 🙂
Cheers,
Aruna
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