Holding his own at the craft table

 I told Andy this week that converting our china cabinet into a craft cabinet was one of the best decisions we've ever made.  Seriously, Emma Grace has spent hours over the past year gluing and cutting and stickering and creating.   Everything, except a few contraband items like glitter and scissors, are readily accessible when her creative juices start to flow.  (which these days is pretty much all day-she's working on an art collection and currently has about 100 original pieces in a big brown grocery sack.  I pretty sure it's worth more than everything at the Louvre combined!) Our only liability in the whole craft cabinet set up has been this little guy.

Well, until now!  A few months ago this little guy could wreck our neatly organized craft drawers in no time and his version of coloring took about ten seconds and was mostly on the table.  Who needs paper when you have a nice big table to color on?

But recently Jack has really gotten into the whole craft thing and it's so fun to find him sitting at the table diligently working on some little creation.  This one is our current favorite. It's his 4th of July man.  (notice the stars and the balloons he's holding? LOTS OF BALLOONS for the 4th!)  Andy and I pretty much adore every person he draws these days, but this guy is just, well, awesome!!!  Can you find JAACK3???  He told me he messed up on the first A so he had to write another one. 

Jack is currently obsessed with his name.  He's started writing it, which is so fun.  When people ask him his name, he often says, " J A C K 3, that's me!"  So every time he writes his name, he always includes the 3.  I think he's gonna be pretty sad when he has to give up the "3, that's me" for a boring number 4.  He's so much into his name that he sings the Alphabet song like this..."J A C K L M N O P Q R S...."

This star struck momma is loving the newest addition to our craft scene!