Aaron is my only child who doesn't love to color and draw. Marissah and Micah are both entertained for hours with colored pencils, crayons, markers and paper. I buy copy paper for them to draw on at an alarming rate. We've probably destroyed entire rain forests over the years. But Aaron, Aaron does not like to color or draw.

On Monday Aaron's Smart Start teacher came to the house for our monthly visit. She asked, again, if Aaron was coloring yet or even interested in using pens, crayons or markers. I told her he wasn't and she gave me a few more tips on how to get him interested.

Last night Marissah had all of her supplies out to work on her book report project. She didn't put them away before bed and Aaron discovered them this morning. Much to my delight, he grabbed a piece of construction paper and started drawing like he'd been doing it for ages. It was lovely 3-year-old scribbles, but we all have to start somewhere, right? He colored for about 20 minutes and then I noticed he wasn't interested anymore. I told him to put the caps back on the markers so they wouldn't dry out. He did this carefully, matching to cover colors to the marker colors and then he proceeded to engage in a marker battle. Ah, yes. There's the boy I know. Doesn't matter what type of toy it is, if Aaron's playing with it sooner or later it will end in a battle. I expect his "ashun figgers" (as he calls them) to fight, but start to wonder a bit when the cars fight, the Lincoln Logs fight. Now it's markers.