The things that Emma says never cease to amaze me. She came home from school the other day and told us that dark-skinned kids can't hold hands with light-skinned kids. Matt and I refrained from freaking out and asked her where she her it. She told us . . . her art teacher! Then, I remembered that it was recently MLK day, which they had obviously studied. We discussed that this was a long, long time ago and that she can hold hands with anyone she wants to. This was sort of upsetting to us because she has never noticed the color of skin before, and now she does. She wanted to know why we were white and others were not, and we just explained that that's how God made us. I have a feeling that this isn't the end of the questions!!
Emma recently gave Logan a super cool tattoo. She loves to draw on her belly and Logan's belly, and he lifts up his shirt to let her. Of course, I had to put in a picture of the final result!
Just a few pictures of the kids . . .
When a camera comes out, he sits on the floor and says, "Cheese." He is such a chatterbox. He loves the words "eat," "snack," and "yes," which sounds more like "yesh." He also says "sishie" for "sissy." Too cute. :)
Our indoor picnic during the snow days.
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I struggled with that too on MLK day. I wanted to talk to Cash about MLK and what he accomplished but at the same time I worried that talking about racism would put ideas in his head. We did end up talking about it and reading a picture book about MLKs life. Cash ended up focusing on the fact that he got shot - he was really upset about it.
I'm glad Emma said something so you could talk about it at home. Cute pictures - your kids are adorable!
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