You may wonder what this pictures is. It's a picture of one of the bedroom walls in our house. Yes, that's writing on the wall and it's in crayon of all things.
You see, when hubby and I bought this house almost 15 years ago, DS was just 4 years old. The master bedroom was on the first flour of the house and all other bedrooms were upstairs. Now, DS was a boy who had lived in CA in a ranch style home, hence no upstairs. My hubby worked nights when we first returned to NY, so I was left on my lonesome to convince my 4-year old son to sleep upstairs with the boogey man. Actually, my son never had dreams or imaginings of the boogey man, but I thought it sounded good.
So, I set about making his bedroom upstairs much more attractive to him. We made a paper quilt that had dinosaurs drawn all over it, stuffed with millions of cotton balls between two sheets of paper, and hung it on the wall with all kinds of other artwork that he and I had created. DS loved dinosaurs. At the age of 3, he could look at any picture of a dinosaur and tell you it's name and what period/era it lived in. We talked about the Cretaceous Period, a lot.
His preschool teacher got a lesson daily on the pronunciation of difficult dinosaur names such as: Tri-cer-a-t0ps and Ty-ran-no-saur-us Rex among others. She said he would pronounce each syllable and wait for her to repeat it before he'd move on to the next syllable. Oh, how I remember those days so well.
Any how, DS and I had quite a paraphernalia of objects that we had attached to his walls to help him to entertain the idea of sleeping in the room upstairs. So, with that in mind, you can maybe understand why the 4-year old thought it would be okay to take his dinosaur stencil set and draw dinosaurs on his bedroom wall, then proceed to color them in with crayon. When he was finished, he couldn't wait to show off his artwork. Eeeek! Well, almost 15 years later, I have to admit that I don't think I'm ever going to look for a way to cover those drawings and paint on top of them. I go up there from time to time and smile when I see it. It's a reminder to me of his baby days.
Oh, and by the way, we finally gave in and let him sleep in another room that was originally the dinning room. We made it into his childhood bedroom. It was downstairs near our bedroom.
After all, I really didn't need the dining room as we have a perfectly fine kitchen nook that the three of ate in for all those years.
3 comments:
Ok, this blog entry was a real tear jerker! * heartbeat*
That is so aewsome to have left it all these years. Who knows..Maybe future grandchildren will add some forest to it one of these days...
:-)
Dinos on the wall. Yep, at my house too. All my boys knew more about dinos at 3 than they will know about cars EVER!
What great memories. I'd be up there looking as well. I say my house is decorated in early preschool because when I put it up on the walls, it stays there till it falls down or later.
I like the idea of grandchildren adding forests to the dino scene one day! LOL!
Ehart, I know my house still has a lot of preschool decor. Isn't that funny? I mean DS is off at college, yet I still have that one bedroom that looks like it did all those years ago.
People probably think I'm crazy, but we have a 5 bedroom house. I think I can live with the fact that one of those bedrooms will probably always look the way it did when DS was 4 or 5 years old. LOL!
And now that he's gone off to college it is nice to 'visit' that room. I've done it often in the last month or so.
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