Friday, October 31, 2008

Little prints...

Today we had our Halloween playgroup at Becky's...it was awesome!!  THANKS BECKY!!  She gave out lunch, gift bags and had a lady from Precious Prints come over and take foot and hand prints of our children on different pottery pieces. Thinking of their little prints, and how fast they grow, I was reminded of a poem I heard in a parenting class Kyle and I took two years ago...


A Child is for Molding

I took a piece of plastic clay,
And idly fashioned it one day,
And as my fingers pressed it still,
It bent and yielded to my will.

I came again when days were past, 
The bit of clay was hard at last.
The form I gave it still it bore,
But I could change that form no more.

I took a piece of living clay,
And gently formed it day by day,
A young child's soft and yielded heart.
And molded it with power and art.

I came again when years were gone:
He was a man I looked upon.
The early imprint still he bore,
But I could change him then no more.

Anonymous  

"Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it"  Proverbs 22:6


Erin's foot prints...


Brooke's...


Kameron's...


When Brooke saw Kyle this morning, she said "You're scaring me dad" and Erin said, "Dad, I like your suit!"...see below.  We went up to Kyle's office to trick or treat and eat pizza...we've done that the last three years and always have so much fun :)


Disco Daddy and Brooke...

1 comment:

Lacey said...

Daddy's costume rocks. :0) My husband would like that..he does have a mullet wig which he has worn the last two Halloweens. Nice...huh? Anyway, cute pictures..loved the poem...and LOVE,LOVE Pottery footprint plates. I want one for each season to display. Cute idea to do it with you playgroup.