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Braden really enjoys doing art stuff- painting, coloring, these dots things, cutting.. it's also a nice time for us to sit down, chat about little things, and have a mellow time . It's not usually a long time slot but we usually work through all of our art supplies in that short amount of time and make a couple of different "projects." Most of the time its a nice time but sometimes it can end in tears, screaming, or some sort of spill. I enjoy it because I get to see how he's growing and developing just even in how his pictures change, I get to hear his imagination at work ["mommy this is my spaceship"], and it forces me to sit down and just focus on him and what we are working on. (We usually only do art stuff when Carter is napping or someone else is hanging out with him, otherwise art time doesn't work out too well for any of us). Anyway, i'm usually on the search for simple little projects we can do- like during Thanksgiving time we made lots of turkeys, a turkey hat and around Christmas we made snowflakes, Christmas trees and that sort of thing.

Every night before bed we pray with Braden. He usually goes through the list of family members, some of his friends, and other random things. Now that he's getting older and understands a little bit more I thought it'd be fun to make a "Little book of Prayers." Something personal to him, that he can go through and remind him of the things he's thankful for and help remind him of different things that he can pray about every night. We all need reminders of what we are thankful for or what we can pray for on a daily basis right?

We started our book yesterday afternoon. I figured that we would work on a page or two each time we sat down and in a couple of weeks have a cute little book. Plus working on it over a period of time will help reinforce the whole thought process behind it. Today we actually made it through three pages! On our "thank God for food" page Braden mentioned some of his favorite foods and I drew pictures of each [and no I am not an artist so its all pretty funny].

So not only do we get to work on art stuff together, learn how to say thanks and what we are thankful for, but I'll have this cute little momento that I can show B when he's all grown up :)