peanuts

The cutest Woodstock ever.

charlie brown, snoopy, woodstock, sally

This was drawn today for me by my friend, Emily (4 years old). :)

Children's letters to God

My friend lent me a book that has letters written to God by children with Japanese translations to help me practice my Japanese. Here are a few of my favorites:

Dear God, When you wrote the bible you made up all the words and spelled them the way you like. That is great. Most of the time I do it like that, but I am not doing so good. Ron

Dear God, Do Plastic flowers make you mad? I would be if I made the real ones. Lucy

Dear God, I didn't think orange went very good with purple until I saw the sunset you made on Tue. That was cooL. Eugene

spiderman and speed

A few days ago my family and I had dinner with Kim Kira (and family) who are on vacation here this week.

If you look at the picture above you can see a small spiderman toy in the bottom right corner. This was the source of Caleb (4 yrs old) and my conversation for the night. It basically went like this (and repeated about 10+ times):
C: ummm...can you draw spiderman? [tries to hand crayon to me]
me: ummm...can you help me draw spiderman?
C: [confused look] no, no.. you're supposed to help me!
me: ohhh...ummm... can you help me draw spiderman?
C: ummm.. but can you help me draw spiderman?
me: how about if you try to draw it first?
C: no. ....can you help me draw spiderman?
me: ok first draw a circle for his head.
C: no. I want you to.... hmm. ok.


So I got him to draw it by himself the first time and then he had me draw one next to it. Here is our finished product:I don't have pictures of the rest of them, but spiderman was drawn about 10 times that night. We used up the whole back side of the kid's worksheet and a stack of napkins.

Caleb did draw some other things too though. Here is the one I liked the most. Can you guess who it is?

click here to find out who it is!