I'm not sure how well you can see the picture above. Molly came home from school with her Martin Luther King Day project - one of many. For some reason this one just touched my heart. The writing says,"He tried to make people friends." She drew a picture of herself holding hands with Peter on the most beautiful day ever. When we asked her about it she looked at us shocked and said "Mama, did you know that before Martin Luther King people would not have let you be Peter's Mommy and then I wouldn't have a brother?" There is something about Molly when she makes a really amazing realization. She has talked about it ever since - she can't imagine a world in which it would be a problem that she and Peter are brother and sister or a world where Peter has less rights to do things than she does just because of the color of his skin. It took Molly several years to even realize that Pete was a different color than her. Black History month at school has certainly given us alot to talk about at the dinner table! A little indulgence as I tell one more Molly story. MY beuatiful, sweet, loving daughter walked in the door from school the other day looks me straight in the eye and says, "Mama, I really want to be Puertarican!" (I have no idea of the spelling) She wants to wear dangling earrings and grow her hair down to her butt and according to her friends her ethnicity will instantly be changed. Ahhhhh - to be five again!
So we're off to get pictures of Annie taken for the 1st time - by the time Peter was almost 6 months old I had 4 different portraits of him. I keep telling myself that its different now because of digital cameras and such but we really don't want her in therapy over it! Plus she's adorable and an easy smile!
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