My 8-year-old is such an interesting kid - she definitely sees the world through incredibly creative glasses. I'd love to get inside her head for a day and absorb just a fraction of her creativity. She's the kind of kid who arranges her eraser collection into a comic strip that tells a story, she'll bite patterns into her food to create imaginative scenes on her dinner plate, and she'll use simple colored hair elastics to make incredible collages of art on the floor. In group settings, especially with guests, she'll often make up elaborate spontaneous games that will gel the crowd in no time. Last year she dressed her 4-foot stuffed dolphin, Jackie, in her own clothes and brought her all over town to run errands with us. Here they are in the doctor's office:
Jackie attracted a lot of attention from onlookers as she rode in the front seat (note the band-aid from the doctors office):
So this is the kind of child my 8-year-old is - she's a ton of fun to have in the family, and we all love her dearly. Recently, she discovered that her favorite skating teacher is pregnant and she was so thrilled by the happy news that she wanted to make her teacher a thoughtful congratulatory gift. She decided that homemade brownies were the perfect answer. But when it came time to slice the brownies, she insisted that we slice the brownies into the shape of "babies" ...
She cut this herself and if you look closely, you can see the smiley face she drew onto the surface using a toothpick. Of course, her skating teacher just about melted over the gesture ... I mean, who wouldn't love a kid like this?!
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HOW sweet is that?!? And the dolphin cracks me up. Love her spirit!
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