Hannah was watching me sew one afternoon after she woke up from her nap.  After a little bit she said,

“I want to sew just like you.  I want a pink ’sewer’ [pronounced so-er].”

Ahhh…there are benefits to not taking the easy road and sewing only when my kids are sleeping.  That warmed my heart to hear her say that.

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Hannah was snuggling with her daddy one morning.  She kept saying how she was going to grow big “just like Daddy”.  Then, she continued on, saying she was going to grow a beard like Daddy.  She didn’t stop there.  She said she was going to sew on her beard and “do pins on it”!!!   Evidently she is combining her desire to be just like Daddy with her desire to sew like Mommy!

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Today, Paul was trying to wear his toy hard hat.  He told me, “Mommy, hard hats mess up my hair.  They make it flat and pointy and I don’t like that.”

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While we were riding in the car today, I was singing “There is Sunshine In My Soul Today”.  I sang the first verse, and then the second (which is “There is music in my soul today…”), and then Paul asked,

“Can you sing ‘There are babies in my soul today’?”

I explained that there aren’t babies in a soul.  Then, he wondered what a soul was, where a soul was (he asked if it was in our stomachs), and I was truly stumped on how to put it into terms he could understand.  The best I could do was tell him it was something we couldn’t see, but it’s what made us want to do good when Jesus gave us a good heart.  Whew!  I wonder how long it will be until he asks about that again.

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On our short car trip, we were taking some ears of corn to Aunt Rachel’s house.  Paul and Hannah got into a rather lengthy conversation about who they liked and didn’t like.  Hannah said,

“I like Aunt Rachel.  I don’t like Uncle Ted because he’s scared of me.”

I think she has her who’s scared of whom mixed up!

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Paul was drawing smiley faces on paper this afternoon.  As he was drawing, and then adding the details, he said,

“I’m drawing a smiley face.  [then starts adding the eyes]  He’s opening his blind eyes.  [now drawing the ears]  Here’s some ears so he can hear.”

I believe he was meaning that by adding eyes to his face he was not going to be blind any more.

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Hannah and Paul are currently working at memorizing the Lord’s Prayer (NIV) and Paul is working on memorizing Psalm 121.  Truly “out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks” (Mt. 12:34b).  At some of the most random times, one or both of them will blurt out excerpts from passages they have memorized or are working at memorizing.  This evening as I was weeding flower beds, they were horsing around on the front deck.  They would each jubilantly hollar out, “I’m going into tempatation!”  (Yes, Hannah would say “temp-a-tation” for temptation.)

Then, Hannah liked to stand at the top of the slide and make loud proclamations.  Here are the ones she made this evening:

“Deliver us from the evil one!”

“The Lord will keep you from all harm!”

“The maker of heaven and earth!”

Of course, after making a proclamation, she would sit down and slide down the slide.

It’s obvious that even though I don’t specifically have Hannah working at memorizing Ps. 121, she’s picking it up from hearing Paul say it.

A note about the pictures:

All these are from this past Sunday evening.  Sunday evenings at home can be some treasured times.  Paul and Hannah played in boxes and ate popcorn.  Then, we went outside and they sniffed the hearty, never-fail zinnias I had them plant early this spring.  Those flowers have brought loads of delight to Paul and Hannah, even though they are a rather common, simple flower.

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