This past week my brother and his family came from out of state to visit my parents. My parents live about an hour away from us and so we went out Friday afternoon to visit and had a mini family reunion. My brother has 4 kids and I had 8 of my kids there so it was a full house. Kids were running around everywhere having fun. Then my 3 year old came into the kitchen, where all the adults had gathered, and he was crying. He crawled up into my lap and said that his brother had made him fall on the ground and hurt his knee. I tried to kiss it better and he said it helped but he was still sad. He said that he needed to go draw a sad picture. I said OK, patted him on the head and sent him on his way. He returned with this picture:
He said he was going to go show this picture to the brother that had hurt him.
Fortunately the 6 year old cousin drew a picture to help cheer him up.
It’s a turtle spider. It worked. My 3 year old felt a lot better after getting this picture. Thank goodness for cousins.
What would we do without art?
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