Ok, M.M, our older foster-daughter is SO smart!!! And I truly say that without bias. I mean she shocks me how smart she is. One of the reasons I say this is because of her ability to be creative, to storytell, and to figure things out. But, one of my favorite things is her "reading" - which for this three year old simply means holding up a book, looking at the pictures, and creating a story based on the pictures. What amazes me is not only how creative her stories are and how they relate to the pictures, but also how her story will tie together from page to page. I don't know that I could do that as well as she does!
Well, this morning I went in to wake the girls up. They were a bit slow in getting up in the morning so I sat down in the room with them. At that time, M.M got up and asked me if I wanted her to read me a story. I told her I would love that. She then got up and grabbed her favorite book that we have given her - "The Beginner's Bible". She sat down and flipped open to a page and began to "read" me the following story:
"This is a story about a bunch of people... and Santa Clause. This is where Santa Clause was working on making his toys. <page flip> And here is where Santa was looking at the map to figure where to fly to deliver all of his gifts to everyone. <page flip> and this is where Santa was trying to figure out how to stuff this giant elephant into his little bag. THE END!"
Now, this might seem like just a sweet story... and it is. But what makes this story SO much more funny is a couple things: First, she was "reading" the Bible when making up this story. Now I realize she has no idea what the Bible is yet, but it still was funny. Secondly, her story was based on the pictures she saw of Noah building the ark. Finally, because she makes these stories up based on the pictures, her story makes a LOT of sense if you see the pictures of Noah. So, I scanned them in to share them here. Take a look and re-read her story... then you will see how creative, funny, and totally logical M.M's story is based on these pictures. SO FUNNY!!!
wow, that's genius.
Posted by: Mandy | February 10, 2009 at 03:24 PM