Who's Your Daddy?

We try to attend the 8am service on Sundays and instead of Sunday school all the kids go in the same room and they offer some craft and stories but it is not as structured as the sunday school class at 9:30. Obviously, it would be hard to cater to the wide range of ages. The nice part about it is that Ella ad Bradley get to go together which makes them both happier! Anyway, when we picked the kids up today Ella had made a picture in which they cut out people from magazines and glued them on their paper. Ella's pictured consisted of an attractive young woman, a black man who looked a little like Will Smith and a handsome older man with all gray hair. I asked Ella what her picture was and she said, "It's my mommy and daddy.....I made a picture of my family." Instantly I wondered who was supposed to be representing Scott.......the handsome young black man or the handsome grandpa? I giggled to myself and said, "look Scott.......Ella made a picture of her mom and dad." Scott stooped down to her level and looked at the picture and asked, "which one of these men is daddy?" Ella pointed to the Will Smith looking gentleman and said, "that's my daddy".....she then pointed to the attractive young , caucasian woman and said, "that's my mommy." As we headed to the car Scott said, "I always wondered...now I know."

Ella was just so innocent in the moment and had no idea that we found it all funny. It was hysterical to see how taken back Scott was at first by her family picture. Anyway, it was really interesting to see that a child as observant as Ella doesn't notice skin color. Wouldn't it be nice to view life that way again....viewing everyone the same, seeing no difference and only seeing all the good things!!