"I love any and all situations where you celebrate creativity."

What a great day we had today, were so lucky to have Seth in our lives. Today Seth decided that he wanted to go to 'The Big Draw' for his Birthday, put on by Wolverhampton art gallery. The big draw is basically an event to bring people together young and old to draw. This year the theme was 2012 and what's happened. There was a very long table and a huge roll of paper and everyone sat down to draw. Mrs M wanted to write the post so here she is...

Hello It's Mrs M.

Today was a very, very special day. It was our baby boys 6th birthday! I am grateful every single day for Seth. He is the most caring, thoughtful, kind and lovely boy I have ever met.... It's not just me who's biased, it speaks for it's self when Seth's teacher welled up, and had tears in her eyes talking about Seth at parents evening last month.  ( She loves him to bits! )

So, We decided after talking at length that we wanted to do something fun for Seth on his Birthday... we asked Seth what he wanted to do on his birthday and he said that he wanted to go to Wolverhampton Art Gallery to the BIG DRAW 2012. I think this was mainly because he'd looked at the photos of Opeie peering into the ceramic multicolour drawers....

We'd told Seth the BIG DRAW was happening on his birthday, because we'd been to the Art gallery a few weeks before. So off we went.... 

Seth loved looking into all the different shaped, textured drawers, not knowing what to expect.... he was so excited which was lovely, as they were filled with the simpleist of items, coffee beans, rocks , shells, lavender bags, fabric, seeds, grain, he loved it all!!!

Seth also loved the horse that Opeie loves, it was very educational, he was asking me what the horse was made from, and why the wool didn't look like the weaved yarn you find in sweaters. . He  loved the 1800's era room mostly, listening to all the different stories on the head phones, and opening all the different drawers again, filled with objects from the 1800s.

I think everyone loves dressing up, don't they? Putting on an item, changing your identity for a few minutes.... Seth certainly loves dressing up, and wanted to try all the different hats, wigs and masks on... which I loved photographing!

( Apparently he was listening to a story about a Doctor in the 1800's )

When Seth opened this drawer in one of the exhibitions, he was so excited as he shouted "LOOK!!! This doll looks just like me!!!" We found that very very sweet indeed!!!

 

The dressing up didn't stop with the wigs! The boys had fun dressing up as 'old fashioned James Bonds' - everything is about James Bond with Seth at the moment!!! 

After we'd walked round the gallery for an hour we decided to join the BIG DRAW - the theme this year was 'Things that have happened throughout the year........... and it was so much fun, I for one could have stayed there all day, but I wasn't feeling well and Opeie and Seth needed to have some lunch.... so we did some drawing and headed home!

"History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies."

 Mrs M has been doing some freelance work in Wolverhampton this week so its given me and Opeie some time to hang out which as you know from previous posts i cherish. It gave us a great chance to check out the art gallery which i love. Wolverhampton will always be very special to me as it's where i met that beautiful lady in my life, so going back there always puts me in a great mood. I look forward to telling Opeie one day about the very romantic first day me and Mrs M had together it may even make itself into a post one day.

The morning started off at Costa where me and Mrs M used to go before uni most mornings, we even got to sit at the table we spent a lot of time, probably only sounds like a trivial thing but the little things do mean a lot to us.

 After Coffee Mrs M went off to work and me and my boy went off to the gallery...

I was quite shocked but Opeie seemed to really love it, it was nice and bright and there was colour everywhere so he didn't know where to look first. He really loved the Victorian room as there were desks set up with various things in and you could go mooching, there were jigsaws and puzzles and Victorian dress up. It was great how the gallery had made it so interactive for children. Ive been in there loads of times but you view everything differently when your there with children and look at things the way they would.

Every room was packed with great things to look at and touch but Opeies favourite things were the horse made of raw sheep's wool and surprisingly a pine cone that was on the touch and feel table. I loved watching Opeie's little face light up as he found each new thing to look at. I honestly didn't think he would enjoy it as much as he did but he had a great time.

I took loads of pictures when we went but sadly when trying to keep and eye on Opeie on all the hard floors most of the pictures ended up blurred. Because Mrs M was working in Wolverhampton the following day too we decided to go back again so i could get some extra shots for the post. Opeie loved being able to root through the drawers again and this time with the extra adult on hand we managed to try on some masks and hats too and also more importantly the photo's came out a little better.

Its always great to go back to where the magic started , Ive got so much to thank Wolverhampton for, Without it i wouldn't be the chirpy and extremely smitten young man i am today and i would have never have Mrs M and those two beautiful little boys in my life. I feel so lucky every day for what i have and i cherish every minute i get to spend with them.