Doodling Nights

These nights, I usually spent a whole hour before the Bees' bedtime to let them indulge in some doodling. This acts as some quiet time to lull the 2 active spirited girls into a state of serenity so they can sleep easier at 10 plus pm. Otherwise, they can be fooling around on bed till really late!

To save the trees, I decided not to use paper for their artistic efforts, although I would dearly love to keep some memoirs of their evening "works". Instead, I let them sketch to their hearts' desires on magnetic doodle boards. My father gave a nice big pink doodle board for Big Bee's 6th birthday, but I realised that the 2 feisty sisters had been fighting rather unceremoniously over this precious commodity. Hence, last month, we bought another doodle board from Fisher-Price so that each can have her own magnetic canvas.

Big Bee is now a category 5 (in hurricane scale) fan of the Powerpuff Girls. She so adores them that she will live and breathe (and draw!) Powerpuff Girls daily. She will sit - starstruck, and insisting that Little Bee should be quiet as a mouse - every weekday at 12pm for their cartoon show and will comb the bookstores for all books Powerpuff; ask me during every business trip to bring back any memorabilia of Powerpuff Girls (which, incidentally, is rarer than expensive black truffles!!) and will doodle them in any spare blank space on her books! *Faint* We sometimes watch the Powerpuff shows with her, and I do find Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup really cute and adorable as well. She will always ask me who are stronger superheroes - Powerpuff Girls or Superman (whom she knows is Mummy's old-fashioned superhero). Erm, of course, I must concede it's the 3 super girls ;)

Oh, by the way, in school, she is Bubbles, while her best friends Elizabeth and Rachel are Blossom and Buttercup respectively. And YES, Powerpuff Girls are the key talking point of these girls. Fan idolation starts at an early age these days.

Every night, Big Bee will practise earnestly how to draw her favourite Blossom and Bubbles! Here are 2 of her masterpieces which she insists I must post here (yes, she reads this blog sometimes!). They do look pretty much like the real things, huh?

Blossom, as depicted by Big Bee - every little girl's superhero

Bubbles as drawn by Big Bee

I am also very proud of Little Bee recently because she learned to draw a face all by herself! Whenever she doodled a face, Big Bee and me will cheer loudly and festively, and Little Bee will flash her characteristic toothy grin, beaming her pride and joy. Then she would point to her nose and the dot she drew on the face, and said happily "Nose!". And she would start doodling smiley or serious faces all over. Last week, she even drew a perfect circle for the face! Her faces are usually smiling or straight-faced....no sad faces yet! Here's one of her masterpieces :)

Little Bee's depiction of Mr Sun with a serious expression. Sunrays courtesy of Mummy.