Cutter Boy

My oldest son Josiah has been diligently learning how to use the scissors himself at his 4K school. And so the requests starting coming at home for him to start using scissors here too. This just started about beg of last week. And soon enough, as is consistent with Josiah's personality, the child was completely obssessed with his scissors and cutting. Everywhere I looked up in his learning room, there were new evidences of his cutting work. And granted, he's done remarkably well in trying to cut on the lines of the drawings of what he is cutting out.

A special surprise for Mommy the other day was this - I had bought the boys a $1 transformers coloring book from Target. Within 2 days, Josiah had colored in all 30 photos of the book (again showing the personality of this kid!). 2 days after that, he proceeded to cut out every single transformer that he colored from the book so the coloring book as stands looks a bit pathetic in it's current shape - nice colorful outside and NOTHING inside. All of his cut outs were neatly displayed across the bed so that I could see and admire each and every one of them. At first I started to laugh at his adaptability in arranging a meeting between his latest coloring book and the scissors - or more a date with destiny? I guess it was only a matter of time. And then the realization kicked in that he didn't ask permission to do this latest feat and the wheels started turning in my own head of just what else could have been cut. I was then thankful - but am beginning to be ever wary of when he wants to 'cut' things, I am starting to conjure up all manner of things around the house that could be cut. I've even started to remember stories of children with scissors and infamously cutting their own hair - we've had many talks about this with him so far though. With Josiah though, as bright as this child is, it will be a mental effort to stay 1 step ahead of him with the newfound responsibility of learning how to cut.

And now we have a drawer full of cut outs - everything that he colors he then wants to cut.

Quite the budding artist this one is!