Scripture Recital

For family scripture time every night we've been reading the Book of Mormon as a family (in addition to individually).  But with a 3-yr-old we'd all read 1 verse each so it was taking a while.  We were in 2nd Nephi and some nights were better than others getting Claire to actually repeat what we read.  And, quite frankly, those verses of Isaiah quoted only 3 verses at a time the topic and context are hard to follow.  It was starting to be less than the glowing experience it started out as.

I decided it was more important that we have positive experiences with scripture reading at this point and that I wanted Claire to easily understand the words she was saying so that she could start to internalize the messages.  I took pictures from the Friend Magazine that had scriptures quoted on them and put them in a binder.  We work on a scripture until she has it down and then she gets to pick the next one to work on.  We started with half of a verse and she's surprised me with how fast she memorized it. 

It's been fun so far.  The first few nights of a new verse we read it to her and she repeats.  The next few nights she gets to play "teacher" and tells us the words to repeat.  And we get to talk about what it means.

The other night we told her she could recite all her scriptures so far for the camera.  Here's a peek at what she's learned.

Car Story #3

We were driving home the other night with happy kids in the backseat.  At a stop light Blake leaned over and we kissed. 

From the backseat we heard, "AWWWW!"  We smiled at each other and looked back but Claire was looking out the window. 

"How nice," she said, still looking out the window.

Not sure if she was talking about us or something she was watching outside Blake asked what was so nice.

"Daddy, you gave your Mama a kiss!" 
(Note: I heard "Mama."  Blake heard "Mom.")