Colors

Luke wasn't really into coloring a whole lot prior to starting school.  He colored a little in pre-school, but he never sat at home for longer than 10 mins at home coloring.  Something has changed as that is now his favorite activity.  He has a ziplock bag with his special crayons( a pack he got from preschool).  That he keeps separate from our crayon container.  The other day he broke a crayon and wanted to sharpen it like you would do a pencil.  So the next time I went to the store I came home with the gigantic 64 pack of crayons with the pencil sharpener.  The coolest thing when I was a kid, as you got 5 shades or so of each color with cool names like periwinkle, burnt sienna, and Granny Smith green.  So he starts using the colors to color things and he says mom I need a blue.  So I look it he box and pull out all the shades of blue: light blue, periwinkle, robins egg blue, turquoise blue, and blue just to name a few.  He looks at them and says which one is blue, I said they are all blue. He says no, b-l-u-e.  then he proceeds to pick up each crayon and find the one the just has blue as a color.  He doesn't want the fancy color, just straight blue.  So I could have saved myself 3.30 if they just sold a crayon sharpener, but instead I have 8 crayons he will use (the basic colors) and 56 he won't!!!  Which is why we had 3 more kids because they will use them!  Graham likes the weird colors like melon and sea green!   Eli is more into markers currently and tries to see which has more marker, his hands (or other body parts) or the table!