Lydia likes a challenge. She read. She read and read and read. She read chapters to anyone who would listen. Sweet (not-so-English-speaking) babysitters listened to Lydia read to them in English. I listened while I cooked. Listened while I changed diapers. Listened while I cuddled up with her on the couch (and she'd breeze through multiple chapters at a time).
She LOVED it! And she was racing towards her reward.
There was an ordering mix up on my first attempt at buying her Bible so it wasn't here when she finished page 526.
But when it arrived a few weeks later she was ready to dig in to the package! Matt and I carefully selected an ESV Bible for Julianna and then we later went back to buy for Lydia and realized we had a small problem. The Bible comes in two colors - purple and blue. We told the girls their Bibles would be identical and they decided to spend their saved up money on Bible covers.
(Note: If you'd like to expand the horizons of your patience abilities, may I suggest online shopping for cute girl-y Bible covers with my daughters? If I hadn't finally put my foot down, insisted on narrowing our options and finally hit 'head to checkout' button we might still be shopping!)
And the girls have this new (incredibly endearing) habit of reading aloud in unison before bed. This particular night they were reading the Intro to the Book of Daniel (not sure how they made their choice). They later declared they'd read the entire Bible and started off right in Genesis 1. They got bogged down pretty quickly and tonight I steered them towards the NT and they read the birth of Jesus from Matthew.
Sweet little girls. Oh Jesus, would you capture their hearts.
5 comments:
What beautiful gifts for beautiful little girls. Congratulations to both of you on a very important accomplishment!
What a sweet post! Congratulations, Lydia for reading through the entire Bible and earning your very own Bible! And congratulations on the those matching Bible Covers - beautiful! We love you!
Love all the excitement of reading the bible. But I loved seeing the pillow cases handed down to the girls from Grandma Ruth. I will show her this blog post for sure. She will love it, and then in 15 minutes forget all about it. I will show her anyway. Love to you all. Grandma Jan
Way to go Lydia!! Such sweet memories for them.
What a beginning of grace filled, life long learnings! You've been blessed to see Julianne & Lydia's diligence as the girls are blessed learn the from their parents guidance.BN
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