Sunday, February 23, 2020

February 22

Saturday:  Last Sunday, Kaity's class talked about the story of Nehemiah and rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem. I thought it might be FUN to expand on that story a little bit and set up a visual for us to re-enact the story.

 So I set up the royal throne in Persia and put the king on it (Artaxerxes)--and that's Nehemiah, the king's cupbearer, holding up the royal cup of wine at the bottom of the golden stairway to the throne.
 And over here are the king's royal stables and horses ...
 And THIS is the ruined city of Jerusalem! Kaity was immensely UNenthused with my efforts. She really was not at all interested in "rebuilding" the walls of Jerusalem and actually was super glad when we had finished the story (!!!) and she could knock the entire thing D-O-W-N! Sigh. I just thought it might be good to go over the story again and talk about all of the cool parts--because Nehemiah is SUCH a good story!

 Kaity tolerated our rebuilt Jerusalem only long enough for me to snap a few pictures, and then she became a mighty enemy and completely destroyed the city (not pictured). I tried, and I think I succeeded in not showing too much disappointment in our failed story time. I even had printed out some nice pictures of the story for us to color, but Kaity was NOT going to have any part of that, no m'am!
 We did play with Matey throughout our afternoon, but Kaity was frustrated with him too! For some reason, Matey would NOT let Kaity pick him up or come to sit on her finger--only when she pretended to be a BIRD, would he come and give her kisses.

 We did get out the foosball game and played one entire game--which Kaity WON, but then she was finished with that! I silently prayed and asked God what to do with our next TWO hours, and then I remembered (thank you, Lord) that when Kaity is "out of sorts" she really likes physical activity. I went to our ping-pong bin, got out one of our colorful balls and paddles and began hitting the ball around the house a little bit. It did not take long for Kaity to want to get HER paddle out as well. She announced that we would NOT use a table today (she can be a little bit bossy) and we would instead just bounce the ball back and forth between us--which, believe it or not, we did for the next hour.
We pretty much limited ourselves to the hallway by my laundry stuff, but we had such a lot of fun. Kaity snapped out of her "mood" and laughed and played more like herself. I need to remember how different each little child can be! Kaity, dear Kaity, is PHYSICAL. I am so looking forward to being able to explore playgrounds again when the weather breaks and it is no longer so cold. 

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