Snowflakes for FHE

We had FHE is Luke's room on his new bed. It had snowed and so Dustin went to help out Ryan with plowing and salting or whatever it is that they do. We missed him for FHE but there will be 50 other family nights to plan and enjoy so we excused him tonight.

Today Luke had a big day at preschool. He came home with a couple things. The first was a worksheet that said "I Have a Dream" on it. He kind of blew over it when I asked him about it because he was so excited about his snowflake. Miss Jani taught them how to cut out snowflakes and he described in great detail to me on how to make one.

While I was looking at his snowflake, it started me thinking about how there are no two snowflakes the same, they are all different. Each of them are beautiful in their own way. People are like snowflakes, we are all different and that's okay too. We don't have to be the same.
I found a picture of Martin Luther King, Jr. and showed it to Luke. I tried to explain to him who this man was and what he stood for. It was a little hard trying to explain it to a 4 year old about the Civil Rights Movement but I just said that a long time ago, black people couldn't do the same things that other people were able to do. And this man wanted to change that.

Then we talked about how everyone is different.  Just like these snowflakes, we are all different and that Heavenly Father loves us no matter what. It doesn't matter if we are black or white, a boy or a girl or whatever, Heavenly Father loves each one of his children and he expects us to treat them the way we would want to be treated.

Then we made our own snowflakes. Our paper was thicker than Miss Jani's paper so it was hard fro Luke to get through all those layers - I helped a lot. We had a good time working on them together.