Can I brag on my boy for a minute?

We went to pick up Owen from his nursery class at church today (Incidentally, I think that's just the best moment ever--picking up your toddler after a separation. There's nothing like that beaming face running toward me and happy to see me to help me feel that all the effort is worth it. Too bad kids don't keep doing that indefinitely!) . As his teacher was collecting his things for me, she brought over his coloring page with an odd furrow in her brow. Then she hands it to me and says, 'Look at this! This is unusual. I don't know, but I think this is 'something'." And when I looked at it I saw what she meant...none of the other toddlers had drawn multicolored straight-line stripes on their coat of many colors! I think the lesson materials must have had a horizontally color-blocked coat and Owen did his best to color his picture that way. I know it's in poor taste to brag about your child, but hey, it's a blog, and mostly family reading it ;) That, and whatever talent he may have in the visual arena is balanced (and possibly outweighed) by a host of other dysfunctions, especially in the social arena. This child wants nothing to do with going places where other people are, is back to throwing tantrums about going anywhere, and acts out by grabbing whatever toy another child has. Sigh. Well, maybe he's going to be some sort of deep, introverted, melancholy artist :)