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I’m happily doing some more nanny/doula “work”. The family I’m helping has a charming and bright 3 1/2 year old girl and a sweet new 3-4month old baby boy. I brought our prayer flag project to do with Emma. We put a little spin on the project though. Instead of using koolaide to dye the flags we used beet juice. The beet juice was great because it gave Emma an opportunity to taste fresh cooked beets. I boiled, peeled and sliced the beets then had Emma use a small cookie cutter to cut the beets into Teddy bear shapes. That was all well and good, she cut the beets and arranged the little beet bears on the plate but was quite sure she didn’t want to eat them……we’ll try again another time! The other thing that was different about the project was that Emma stitched the flags on the cord. At camp we stapled the flags on but with plenty of time Emma stitched the flags herself. The way we did the sewing was I poked the needle in and she pulled it through until she got the hang of it and then did it all herself. I helped by holding the work for her.
I explained to Emma that the idea was that when you hang your flags and the wind catches them it takes good wishes all ’round the world. She asked if good wishes would go to her Uncle Jeff and I said yes…so sweet!