Active Imagination

The mind of a toddler is a wonderful thing. Nathanael's imagination has really taken off lately. It helps that his vocabulary and language skills have improved as well so that we can peek into his mind. Just today he was playing "swords" with Forest--cut swim noodles that they use to sword-fight. It was time for Forest to go back into the study to work so Nathanael came out to play alone. He came to the kitchen to tell Laura that his noodle was his wooden staff. He threw it on the ground and said it was a snake. Then he held it upright and struck the floor with it and said the water turned to blood. Can you guess what our nightly Bible readings have been about lately? We have been in Exodus and reading about the plagues on Egypt.

A couple weeks back he came up to Laura one day and said, "Mommy, I want to give you a blessing." So he found a toy, the lipstick from one of Hannah's toys, and gave it to Laura and said "Here's your blessing." This happened shortly after we had been reading in Genesis where all the patriarchs give blessings on their sons.

He also likes to imagine what the baby is doing inside Mommy's belly. A couple nights ago he said she was dancing inside Laura's belly and singing a song. Often she's just "kicking back," since he often feels her movements when we are sitting close and reading a book.