Pa from the Bible

I just had the most confusing conversation with Annie and Riah while tucking them in bed tonight.

Annie: "Have you heard about Pa in the Bible?"

Mommy (confused): "Pa? You mean Pa Grape? [VeggieTale character]"

Annie: "Not Pa Grape, Pa."

Mommy: "No, I don't think I've heard of Pa."

Riah: "It's Jesus, and he was walking along the street and there was this big eye down from heaven and it was God and he got his name changed to Pa. We learned it in Sunday school."

And that, for the record, is the most creative retelling of Saul's conversion that I have ever heard.

Exercising with a critic on hand

"Mommy, why are you breathing?" asked my three-year-old as he watched me huff through an exercise video this morning. I think he meant 'why are you breathing REALLY HARD' since his first question was followed immediately by, "Why isn't the lady breathing?" That would be the lady on the video. "Mommy, you're not doing it right. The lady's legs are straight. Your legs aren't straight." And so it continued! If I had been a serious exerciser, I might have been insulted. But I was too pleased to have carved out enough time (not to mention enough floor space in the living room) to actually justify dusting off the DVD. No critic was going to stop me from enjoying a little exercise!

By the way, when we finished Pilates, I put another exercise video in for the critic to evaluate while I checked email. He immediately fell asleep on the couch while Leslie Sansone walked off the calories. Exercise is just hard work! :)

There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly: Part 2

I should have thrown away "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly" when I had the chance. After our last reading I was interrogated as the the feasibility of swallowing a horse, and why the lady died, and did she go to heaven, and why did she think the spider was going to catch the fly, and if it did catch the fly, how would it get out of her tummy.

Tonight? "How could she swallow a goat [opening mouth to see how big of a goat would fit in]? Why is she getting fatter and fatter? Why didn't she eat the cat's collar? Now that the fly is out of her mouth, is that pesky fly going to fly somewhere and find a bee and ask it to go and sting the lady?"

Angels we have heard on high

Josiah's favorite hymn is Angels We Have Heard on High. I discovered this one day while he was babbling to himself in the car. I could have sworn the babbling sounded like the chorus to that hymn, so I began to sing it, and he babbled right along. Go, Joe-Joe! Can't speak any significant English yet, but he knows a little Latin. :)

So now we sing the hymn daily, but I realized today that we need to practice the words. After a rousing chorus of "Glo-o-o-o-o-o-ri-a, in excelsis Deo!" Annie began a solo on the second verse: "Shepherds why this jew-el-ry..."

Our Adventure

We had a nice outing with the moms and kids from church this morning, including a tour of the fire station, a picnic lunch and splashing at a water play area.

But on the way home, Riah all of a sudden declared, "Mom, we forgot our adventure!" I don't know what he thought we had been doing, but apparently it wasn't an adventure.

Riah's morning musings

Zachariah was coloring at the kitchen counter and babbling away this morning. I thought he was talking to himself, but then I listened to his words and decided otherwise: "I hope you have a good day, sitting at the right hand of God, and coming to judge the world at the last day, I hope you have a good day!"

"Does Shane have a brain?"

While sitting on the potty and talking up a storm, Zachariah declared that his brain is in his head. "Some little kids have brains. I have a brain. Does Shane [Riah's 11-year-old cousin] have a brain?"

I assured him that yes, Shane has a brain.

"No," laughed Riah, " Shane doesn't have a brain."

So there you have it, straight from a reliable source. (Sorry to disappoint you, Shane!)

Annie speaks "Sp-annie-ish"

While reading "Barney's Weather" to Annie and Zachariah last night, Annie interjected her own interpretation of the text.

Mommy: "On rainy days, Barney carries an umbrella."
Annie: "On clampy cays, Barney carries a cruprendella. That's Spanish for umbrella, Mommy."

Smiling Josiah

Here are a few minutes of smiles by Josiah! He seems to be our fussiest baby, but he is smiling more and fussing less as the weeks go by. He is almost 8 weeks old now and very interested in the world around him. His favorite position seems to be propped up where he can see what's going on or carried around in the bjorn.

Another potty pic

Since my blog seems to be mostly about pottying.... this was a recent cute moment!