Ruby's Process

When Ruby paints, she likes to layer color after color after color and mix them and mix them and mix them with the paintbrush, and ends up with these really lush, cool paintings:

Today she was painting squiggly lines, a total departure from her norm:

"I like your painting," I said. 

She looked at me like I was nuts. "It's not a painting, Mom. I'm working on my process."

Fast forward ten minutes later, ten minutes of me gloating about my very own child prodigy, my absolute genius of a child, wondering if it was too early to start her college applications. She came into the room and wanted to perform "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes" for me. The kid didn't get a single body part right. Where she should have pointed at her head, she pointed at her shoulders. Where she should have pointed at her toes, she pointed at her ears. And so on.

Thanks for keeping me honest, kid.