Developmental psychology fascinates me and I’m surrounded by it. A few months ago, Lana found an old printed picture of a castle I had. She drew it and her interpretation fascinates me. It is simple. It is correct in certain details and terribly incorrect in others.
I have been slowly scanning in a kid drawing or two and putting them up on a rambling, flow-of-consciousness blog[1][2] for some reason. Perhaps for posterity. Perhaps out of vanity about my children’s artistic potential. Perhaps because it seems worthwhile to pump fun, happy pictures onto the Internet — in contrast to the negative images that often plague the Web.
These two images are worth more commentary and broader audience. Here’s the castle, printed:
Neuschwanstein Castle, Bavaria
Lana’s:
Castle drawn by Lana based on the above
Neurons are firing, forms and patterns and ideas are connecting and expressing. Do kids see everything as a Dr. Seuss fun-house?
5 under 4 
Do you know that people used to PAINT those stone surfaces of castles? Kelly Jean learned this when visiting castles in Europe. Can you imagine? Bright blues and reds and golden-yellows? Lana knows how it should be done.
To God be all glory,
Lisa