Posts Tagged ‘Children’

I Like: Shape Collage

I made the collage below in about 2 minutes, using the free Shape Collage program.  I like.

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Fall + Veterans Day = Free Fun

Thanks to all who have and continue to keep us free!

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Fall Fun

Beautiful fall day today…a little pumpkin carving – including E being disturbed by the inside of the pumpkin (thus, some of his facial contortions).  K did several faces for me (excited, frustrated, angry, confused).

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Interesting Self-Portraits

In preparation for a Parent’s Open House, our children drew self-portraits of themselves.  Here are the results of this little art project. I have to admit I was a little concerned about E’s self-image, until I heard that he was actually drawing himself as a particular Star Wars character (click here to see who).  With [...]

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Slice of Life: “don’t let him see this”

Context:  Last night.  My wife is out to dinner with some friends and E & K are having what we call “snuggle” time, but is really just a brief and hopefully quiet playtime for the kids before they are separated for bedtime. This little episode starts with me hearing the sound of what might be [...]

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New Definition of a Sports Car

This morning, while I was taking the kids to school, E (5 1/2 years old) suggested that the car in front of us was a sports car.  I found this curious as the car in question was a Volkswagen Bug (new style), but E was not thinking of the traditional definition of a sports car.  [...]

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Bad Spidey! Bad!

You may remember our friendly outside spider from this post a week and half ago.  I’ve taken to calling him “Spidey” and though I don’t like spiders, I have enjoyed watching him build his webs day after day.  Because he builds a web over our screen door, we periodically break part of it and he [...]

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Lions & Tigers & Spiders, Oh My!

I couldn’t get a picture of the lions and tigers in our yard, but here are a few of an awfully large spider.  Spidey has been hanging out for a few weeks, but gave a little scare as we were on our way to church yesterday.  Next time he should stick to the terragon and [...]

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Quick Hitter: Advertising & Children

There was a new segment on the nightly news tonight that grabbed my attention, even though it told me things I already knew.  The same information can be read here, but this tells you all you need to know (from the article): Food and beverage companies spent $1.6 billion in 2006 on advertising aimed at [...]

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What happens when…

you send your 5 1/2 year old out into the backyard with the digital camera? Apparently quite a few shots of the appointed picture taker!

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Excursus on Sycamore Trees

My previous post reminded of this article I wrote for our church newsletter three years back: I have found at least two great reasons to have Sycamore trees in your yard – preferably one in the front yard and one in the back, as we do at our home.  First, these two wonderfully tall and [...]

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Slice of Life: Conversations with a 5 year old

Here are some random conversations with my son from recent weeks: This one came today (while the kids were riding bikes in the street): Me: When are you going to let me teach you to ride your bike without training wheels? E: (with stern look) Never. E: (a few minutes later) Were you seven when [...]

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10 Ways to Help Kids Love Missions

Good post at the Desiring God Blog (HT: Discerning the Times)

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