Questions from a four year old

Tonight a young man was baptized and, during his bedtime prayer with Isaac, Jake mentioned him. After the prayer Isaac said,"So baptism is to wash away sin. Oh, so John baptized Jesus to wash away His sins." Then Jake explained that,"No Jesus was very special and didn't have any sin." So then Isaac looked up at him and said,"So why was Jesus baptized?" Good question huh? Isaac got the simplified version of the answer, but if you're over four and want a more complete answer you can read it for yourself. Matt 3:13-15

Deep thoughts

Yesterday was isaac's friend's birthday and he was invited to the party. When he came home he was disappointed that he didn't get to spend the night and I apparently said, "tomorrow we can see about you spending the night sometime." Isaac took that to mean "tomorrow I can spend the night." so this morning at church he asked if he was going to have a sleepover and I said," not tonight." He looked at me and said,"But mommy, today is yesterday's tomorrow." Think about that.

Christmas Pictures

Today I learned that getting three kids to cry at the same time is easy, but getting three to smile...not so simple. And for each kid you add the difficulty increases exponentially. Getting two kids dressed, posed and smiling may take an hour and fifty pictures but it is possible to get a shot with both smiling and looking at the camera. Getting three kids dressed takes at least an hour from the time the oldest declares he doesn't like his outfit and you finally convince (okay I bribed) him to put it on, the middle holds still long enough to get a hair tie in, and the baby wriggles around and tries to escape the tights that need to go on her legs. Then there is the posing stage. Getting three in the frame was tough so after about 2 min I gave up and off to the WalMart photo studio we went.
Okay, I know it's only mid October, but this is our last free weekend until after Thanksgiving and I just like to be early. Not to mention it's easy to get an appointment now, but early December, no thanks. So all three kids are dressed, hair is semi styled, and we are at the studio with time to spare! The poor photographer asked if we were there for Christmas pictures. I said, "No, we're here for Halloween pictures, they're dressed up as Christmas kids." My humor was not appreciated, so I after a tense minute I said, "Yes, Christmas pictures." Now just to get all three wrestled in front of the Christmassy backdrop. And after nine photos Indiana refuses to sit or stand and only wants to roll around and cry. Oh well, we made the most of the nine shots and got one that will work.

Want some photographic evidence? I thought so, here you go.

Two kids, relatively happy, in focus equals decent picture.

Add the third. One crying but looking at the camera, one singing, and one smiling but looking at something off camera. Oh, and not in focus at all. But at least they are all dressed and in the shot :-D

Teaching Indiana to Talk and Nose Racing

On the way home from church last night Indiana was doing her usual squealing and Isaac decided to teach her how to talk. So he said, "Indiana this is how you talk, 'Say "Mommy" or "Daddy" or "Isaac" or "Abigail" or "Please may I have peanut butter and jelly sandwich.'" Yep, he covered all the essentials.

Isaac and Abigail went upstairs while I was working yesterday and when I heard them coming back down the stairs Isaac was saying, "Come on Abigail lets go do the nose race." I was thinking to myself that this could be bad, after all, I have no idea what nose racing is. Turns out they had gotten into the Mr. Potato Head stuff and had picked out all the noses, they were throwing them down the hallway to see which nose won. Obviously...nose racing.