Today I got to babysit the little 6 year old girl next door. I had her most of the day, and she behaved very, very well. She listened, she wasn't annoying, and we actually got along today! She and I went outside, played with the animals, let Gabriel out, played a Bible game with her brother and my brother, we played in the dirt too (no day is complete without that! :P)

And, on top of that, Mom sewed her two pairs of culottes (spelling?) for when I have to baby sit her this summer. In summer, her grandmother (that's who she lives with) dresses her in very short shorts or mini-skirts. We don't tolerate her wearing those types of clothing up here, so we've made something that she can still wear to play in and be comfortable and modest. To be 6 years old and already dressed in mini-skirts?!? Something is wrong with that picture….

Anyway, she was wearing a very old dress of mine ( her size ) until Mom got her culottes done. She even asked me if she could wear the dress! Of course I said yes!! Then later, she asked me if she could wear a head covering like mine, so I went and got my shortest one (which is for my baby doll.., but it was still long enough to almost cover her hair, which was in a pony-tail. ) and put it on her. She was soooo cute! And she wore it the rest of the day until her grandma came to pick her up. Needless to say, she was rather stunned to see her granddaughter in modest culottes and a head covering!!! hehe.

Because when she was getting her ready to come up to our house (I was at her house), the little girl was in a mini-skirt. I asked her grandmother if she had something longer to wear. She apparently thought I was concerned about her getting bug-bit, so she said she'd spray bug spray on her. So I said "No.. do you have something longer?" And I think she got the idea then, because she had her go change into the next longest thing she could find — stretchy pants.

So, in all, I've had a pretty good day, aside from Gabriel running off and refusing to come to us, but, that's another story.

Which reminds me, I did have time to get another Scripture wallpaper done!!

Based on Psalms 127:3-5
Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.
Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.

And, of course, my Scripture Wallpaper made for Erika using Oddball:

Based on the part in James 4:6
God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.