Well, Matthew’s fear last week almost came true this week. We only got a single submission for our drawing prompt this week. Normally, this would send Matthew into fretting that the drawing prompts aren’t interesting enough, the blog content isn’t good enough, that we were totally misguided in thinking that posting kids’ drawings on a blog would be interesting to anyone, that this whole idea of trying to get kids involved in writing and drawing is a failure, a failure, a FAILURE! But luckily, he is in Houston at the moment, where he was supposed to be doing his “real” job, but instead is holed up in a dingy hotel room being sick sick sick as a dog. And so I am left in charge here, and have just informed myself that the lack of responses this week is due to the flu and the onset of solar flare season. And so – onwards!
The drawing prompt was to draw what was growing now that it’s spring (sort of).
The submission we received from Joe suggests that though Joe did not fall prey to the flu or solar flares, he has been battling a fresh crop of the Bad Piggies.
Though seasonal, Bad Piggies are definitely perennials. They can even grow in space, which makes them especially hard to deal with. Matthew weeds Bad Piggies on long and boring phone calls, and Kato is quite an excellent Bad Piggy gardener as well. I am wholly unfamiliar with physics, and therefore believe that Bad Piggies are for the birds. I particularly like how Joe has depicted the Piggies as pretty amicable guys. They don’t seem to mind at all that they’re about to get toppled.
Alden decided that ladybugs were going to arrive come spring. Little did I know that ladybug infestations actually occur in the winter, when the bugs decide to come inside where it’s warm and hibernate rather than spend all winter outside. Not so dumb, those ladybugs. I learned all about ladybug infestations here and then found some fun info here, including this awesome photo:
That’s a LOT of ladybugs. Actually, to be fair, Alden only said that one ladybug was growing up out of the ground. A ladybug with pink ribbons on her wings. As the ladybug grew, so did the bubbles. It is unclear how or why the bubbles were involved, but I’m just telling the story as it was told to me. It turns out that this particular ladybug is special – the ribbons mean that she is the “angel of the parade.” No further explanation was offered.
Kato’s springtime involves crazy roller coasters growing up out of the ground under the big hot sun. It’s dark outside, because it’s spring, and there’s also a blue rocketship (Kato logic).
There was also an airplane, but a new pair of scissors facilitated a destructive distraction, and the airplane was promptly cut off of the picture and into tiny pieces. It does not fly.
I was thinking about how frustrating it must be to be a flower bulb, sitting in the cold cold dirt all winter long, under piles of snow, pining for the warm days of spring. It occurred to me that if you didn’t like your neighbors, there wouldn’t be much you could do about it. Even once spring has sprung and you’ve sent your flowers up into the air, you’re probably still a little crabby about the whole ordeal, year in and year out.
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Until next time, folks. Here’s hoping the flu and solar flares settle down before the week is out.