This Is How We Spent Our Black Friday

As soon as Chloe woke up this morning she said that she wanted some bacon for breakfast. I had gone the night before and gotten her some bacon because she doesn't like the Turkey bacon that I eat.

She is such a picky eater that we like to keep on hand things that we know that she will eat and bacon is one of the things that she loves.

As soon as she finishes her breakfast she looks over at me and asks, "What are we going to do now?"
"What do you want to do?," I asked her back. "Well we could play Barbie dolls or color some pictures or go and ride my bike." I answered her with, "How about we color some while we are here at the table. I will get the crayons and some paper and we can draw and color whatever we want to."

"Poppy, I will uses the newer crayons and you can uses the older ones ok and if they break with you that will be ok."

 I love it at these times where as we are coloring or playing she tells me things that she has learned at school for the week as well as the year. Her mind is an open book soaking it all in and she has learned alot of things this year.

 

She colors on her page the stars and the moon and the sun and the clouds. And then she said, "Poppy you know that God made the heavens and the earth. He made the stars and the moon and the sun. You see up here with the stars I put the moon and the night together like he did and down here I put the sun and the clouds and the sky and the ground, just like He did." I wanted to hug her as she was talking, but I knew that if I did, the talking would cease and the subject would change so we continued to color.

"This picture on the bottom is a stable." "Jesus was born in a stable because there was no room in the Inn." It's sad Poppy that they had know room in the Inn, isn't it." "Do you think it was cold out there?" "Were the animals out there as well?" "The best thing was that God was there with them." "You couldn't see Him but he was there." "I want to cut this picture out for the refrigerator, ok!"

 "Here is my picture of the stable and the three wise men and baby Jesus mother. I'm not sure how to draw a baby."

Now Poppy, "I will tell you a story and I want you to draw the picture as I tell it to you and we can see it the story matches the picture. We do this in school sometimes and it helps to complete the story.

This story is about the Garden Of Eden. In this garden there were two people, a man named Adam and a woman named Eve. And for their clothes they wore fig leaves to cover them for clothes. Eden was like a garden, with trees and plants and things to eat. But God told them that they could eat anything except from the tree of Good and Evil. Also in this garden was a snake (he is the devil) but don't listen to him because he will get you in trouble.

Poppy, "You did a good job of matching the picture to the story." I was glad that I knew the story so I could draw it.

Now I want you to draw me a coat and I will color it after you are finished. I'm not sure how to draw a coat and you will know more about that than me. This story is about a coat that was made for Joseph, and it was a coat of many colors. His brothers were jealous of him because of the coat and that his parents loved him very much. His brothers put him in a pit and told his father a story that was a lie. What they had really done was sold him to get rid of him. In the end he saw them again and they all got back together as a family.

Here is the coat after she finished coloring it. I think that she did a great job of coloring it.

She wanted me to help her spell the words as she wrote them under the picture telling about the above story.

Now Poppy it is your turn to tell a funny story and you will draw a picture to match the story and I will too.

After thinking for a while, I told her that my story was a rhyme and it goes like this:

Here comes the bride,
Big fat and wide.
Here comes the groom,
Skinny as a broom.

She thought that this was so funny and it would be fun to draw and match this rhyme.

Here is Chloe's picture to match the rhyme.

Here is my picture to match the rhyme.

Chloe said that the groom should be wide and the bride small and thin. I explained to her that the words didn't rhyme. She said I can fix that, listen to this.

Here comes the groom,
Big as the room.
Here comes the bride,
See how she glides.

Oh how quick that mind of hers is. She thought of that so quickly.

She wanted to draw the last picture of Bell her kitten and her Christmas tree. She loves cats and you can tell from this picture.