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28 August 2009

Six.

Hannah suggested that 3yo Mary Jane draw a garden of flowers.  She said she couldn't.  "Then draw just one flower," suggested Hannah.  


"I can't," insisted Mary Jane.

"Well, what can you draw?"

"I can draw myself," she told Hannah.

"Then draw yourself," Hannah told her.  But she said:  

"No!  I will draw my WHOLE FAMILY."

First family portrait - 6 by mary jane

From right to left, she reports:  "The new baby in Mommy's body... Daddy... Sister (me)... Mommy... brothers."

28 August 2009 in Beautiful things, Education, at home and elsewhere, On raising kids, Pregnancy and childbirth, Tribe |

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