Family Tree

Part of Landon's homework assignment a few weeks ago was for him to fill in a preprinted form of his family tree. As with most "normal" families....there was a spot for him, his parents and both sets of grandparents. Poor kid was so lost on how to fill it out. He wanted to know which people he should CHOOSE to put in the preprinted lines on the tree. :0( I had to explain to him that not every family fits into the "normal" category and that we would just have to add some lines of our own to make his tree nice and full. He was so proud and excited when we were done filling it in with all of the names. He couldn't wait to take it to school to show his teacher how many people he had in his "UNIQUE" family tree. :0)
What I didn't know was that the homework was the outline for their art project at school. I saw this in his backpack yesterday and had so much fun looking at it. Apparently each child had to draw faces on the circles and put them on their "real" family tree made of construction paper.

See...there's Landon in the middle. To the left is the Robinson/Burnham side of the family and to the right is the Holtman/Zeyer side of the family. I think he did a fabulous job. What was funny for me to look at, however, was the faces that he drew for each person.....
Here is Landon. He drew his hair poking up in the back. It must have been a bad hair day for him. Here is Jaysen and me. At first I thought he drew Jaysen with an angry face, but Landon assured me that it was a sad face, not an angry face. When I asked him why he drew Jaysen as sad he just laughed. I guess he just thought it would be funny. I am loving how sweet and nice he drew my picture. Don't I look angelic? :0)Here are Jeff and Shirlaine along with Grandma Zeyer. Apparently Grandpa Zeyer didn't make it through the bus ride home. His head is missing from the tree and all that is left is his label. :0) I was rather humored that Landon would make sure to get Jeff's "soul patch" in on his head.

Here are Grandma and Grandpa Holtman. When I asked him what was up with the angry eyes on Ronald he told me that sometimes he just gets mad. :0) {I think we all do} But, it's great that Landon drew a fluff of hair for him.

Here's Nana and Papa. Landon was so tickled with his drawing of Papa. It was the first face he pointed out to me and he was laughing so hard. "Did you see how I drew Papa's hair?"

Grandma and Grandpa Burnham fared the best overall. Perry grew a head full of hair overnight apparently....and look how happy he is about it. :0)

Here is Mackenzee. Doesn't she look so sad? Why is she sad? Because she is always naughty and has to go to time out. That's what Landon said. If you've been around here lately you would have noticed that she has tended to have a perma-pout on her face. Such a drama queen!

And here is baby brother Brayden. I think he looks kind of scared, don't you?

Anyway, I was glad to see that Landon understood that his family tree just had a few more branches than some of the others in his classroom and that it didn't mean that he had to choose which ones to add to his tree. Sometimes we just have to get a bigger tree. :0)