Friday, March 20, 2009

Sharing one of our favorites

We enjoyed an evening with Chai and Jeremiah Monday night (and their parents of course), and John took the opportunity to introduce the boys (and their parents) to one of our favorite picture books - The Gingerbread Man retold by Jim Aylesworth.


"Run! Run!
Fast as you can!
You can't catch me!
I'm the Gingerbread Man!
I've run from a husband!
I've run from a wife!
And I'll run from you too!
I can! I can!"


We love this retelling and every bit of the Gingerbread Man's sassiness. John is great doing different voices for everyone who wants a piece of the Gingerbread Man and who can't relate to his sense of foolish arrogance clouding his judgment up to the very end. But enough of that...we just like it.

From what I can tell, Chai and Jeremiah liked it too. They did, they did.

2 comments:

Joshua Butcher said...

Look at the little man cheesing for the camera!

We certainly enjoyed our time together with the Fergusons, as we always do.

Thanks for being such a godly example for a young family like us.

Holly said...

Now that is a must read. Have John bring it along this summer on the way to Canada!! I want to hear the voices, I do! I do! Ahem, not that I already hear voices...