August 2008 – Page 3 – The Espinoza Family Blog

For the next 4 weeks @ church Isabel will be learning how to talk with God.

We have been praying and teaching Isabel to pray ever since the beginning. Now we say prayers together at breakfast, lunch, dinner, and at bedtime. Just recently though, we have began to pray at nap time as well.

These are all just simple prayers like…
“Thank you God for this food.” “Thank you God for this time to sleep.”
and just yesterday, while Isabel and I were playing on the floor together, she stops what she was doing, folds her hands, and says; “Momma pray Daddy.” So right there we prayed for Daddy while he was at work.
“Jesus Daddy safe work, Amen”

With our prayer time together at home and learning more about prayer at church it will reinforce the importance of talking to God for her. Amen!

We have had several weeks of cooler/cloudy/rainy weather around here, so again, Isabel and I were stuck indoors. Therefore I decided to let her finger paint. As far as I know she has never done this, unless she has at church but I’m guessing no, since I haven’t seen any of the “artwork”. So on this morning, I laid down some paper on the kitchen floor and got some of my scrapbook paper and let her paint. Surprisingly she didn’t get as messy as I thought she would; she kept asking for wipes to wipe her hands off. She’s such a “clean” kid!
I also did a hand and footprint to keep in our memory book. She thought this was very cool and asks me often throughout the days since finger painting if we can do this again…please! Enjoy the photos!