The Bible

I have been reading the Bible to Alyosha during nap times. We have a really good Children's Bible from 1965--the same one I remember Grandma having. I don't know if it was Daddy's or John John's originally, but I remember it myself. I found a never opened one at the thrift store a year or so ago and bought it for $2. Alyosha looks at the pictures all the time and recently asked me to read him some stories from the pictures. It tells the real stories, not all dumbed up like some newer children's bibles, but also not as complicated as the adult version. We just finished reading about the 10 plagues and are still reading the Exodus story with Moses and the Israelites.

Does anyone know what the 10th plague is? The plagues really interested Alyosha; we read them a week or so ago and he is still asking questions. The 10th plague is the one where God comes for all the 1st born of the Egyptians but passes over the homes of the Israelites. So that God knows the people who live in the house are faithful, he asked them to sacrifice a lamb and paint its blood on 3 spots of the doorway and the first born of that household will be saved. Guess what today is? Passover. I told Alyosha that today was passover and he got a very serious look on his face. He said we need to go get a lamb right now and paint blood on our doorway. He is the first born child in our household, I understand where his concerns come from. We haven't gotten to the Easter story yet!

*Speaking of things children say, while we were at the dentist Alyosha asked what they were going to put in the holes where the cavities were. The dentist said either white paint or silver paint. He told the dentist "My daddy's teeth are all painted silver!" *The kids were eating ice cream and it started dripping over the cones they made. Alyosha said "My ice cream is Kapping!" (kap kap kap is the sound drips make in Russian)




Happy Easter weekend to everyone!