The Fascinating Week in Dig Land

This is an excuse to upload some fantastic Christmas and post-Christmas photos – just a few highlights. BUT also to debut Dig’s super singing skills…

My 3 guys on Christmas morning enjoying their milk and/or coffee.

Discovering the kitchen for the first time. Turning the burners on to HI.

Charlie's excited to have an "onge."

The Gruffalo hats and mitts - Nana and Grandad those are my favorite! One of the few photos we took during present opening. Mostly we sat and relaxed and let the kids play with whatever they had opened until they were ready to do another one.

Dig's drawing of a Rhinoceros. I am such a proud Mum!!! Check out the capital R he is drawing as well... I'm thinking purely coincidental, but rad.

This is the face we see most often from Charlie. I can't help but laugh. It's so pitiful and cute at the same time.

100 Prayers God Loves to Hear, 100 Praise Songs

created by Stephen Elkins

This book was received for review from Thomas Nelson’s Booksneeze program.

100 Prayers God Loves to Hear, 100 Praise Songs is exactly what it sounds like. Stephen Elkins took 100 prayers – from the Bible, to rhyming prayer ditties (like “Now I lay me down to sleep”), to The Serenity Prayer – grouped them with little quotes like “It would be much better to forget to play than to forget to pray!”, and added illustrations by Tim O’Connor. But wait, there’s more. The book is accompanied by 100 Praise Songs, a song for each prayer.

This book for kids might have worked out great if Elkins didn’t have to keep with the “100″ number (he also has 100 Bible Stories, 100 Songs). If he had taken perhaps the top 15 (maybe 20 at a stretch) and really focused on making quality instead of quantity, perhaps I would have liked this book. The 2 CD’s of 50 songs each will probably never find it to our stereo again. Some people do like cheesy kids choir songs, and that’s okay, but I’m not one of them.

Am I quickly turning into the reviewer who always gives a bad review? I hope not. I think that we should place quality books in children’s hands.

The only impressive thing for me about this book was the sheer number of pages for a kids book.

Repeat After Me…

The light bulb went on in my head. “Teaching Moment! Teaching Moment! Teaching Moment!” And my brain recalled (how could it ever forget) the Sing, Spell, Read, and Write songs…