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| Easter Sunday |
JULIANA - 3 YEARS
Juliana appeared at the top of the stairs by herself. When reminded she wasn't allowed to climb the stairs on her own she replied,
"I wasn't alone. Jesus was with me. I wasn't scared."
Clever, clever three year old.
JULIANA AND ADALYN - 8
AND 5 YEARS
When children bless
the food they don’t like:
Adalyn: Dear Jesus,
thank you for the food last night.
Juliana: Dear Jesus,
thank you for the food and help it not to taste bad…
JULIANA - 4.5
YEARS
Juliana: But I WANT
juice.
Me: No, you don't need
juice. Wanting something doesn't mean you need it.
J: But I said PLEASE.
That means I should have it.
Me: Please isn't going
to change it.
J: Then what will?
Me: Nothing. I already
said no.
J: JESUS could. If he
wanted to.
ADALYN - 4 YEARS
Adalyn: God is a
clown.
Me: Um, why?
Adalyn: Because he is
everything.
ADALYN - 2 YEARS
Adalyn: When I'm a
little baby...
Juliana: You will
never be a little baby again. You will just get older and older and then you
will die.
Adalyn: And then you
go to jail.
Juliana: No, then you
go to heaven.
Adalyn: Heaven is
jail.
JULIANA - 3 YEARS
Juliana and I were
talking about how God loves us.
J: But if we don't
love God then he runs away?
Me: No, God still
loves us even if we don't love him.
J: Like when I am mad
at you, I still love you?
Me: That's good.
J: Well, actually I
don't.
JULIANA - 2
YEARS
Yesterday Juliana was
trying to avoid cleaning up like I asked her to, so she decided to start
praying instead. Good one, Juliana.
JULIANA - 6 YEARS
Juliana (singing): Up
from the grave she arose!
Me: Actually it's up
from the grave "He" arose.
Juliana: No, Jesus can
be either a boy or girl.
Me: God is not a boy
or a girl, but when Jesus lived on earth he was a boy.
Juliana: No, he could
be either. He had long hair.
NADIA - 3 YEARS
Nadia picks up a
thumb-drive.
Nadia: What's this?
Me: It's a
thumb-drive.
Nadia: Is that God?
Me: What? I don't
understand. How is it God?
Nadia: I can see God
in it.
Me: Umm, okay. How can
you see God in it?
Nadia: Because it came
from God.
Me: Well, no. It's a
thumb-drive.
Nadia: Can you drive
with it?
JULIANA - 2 YEARS
Me: Jesus is here, we
just can't see him.
Juliana, looking
around the room: "Oh, he's hiding??"
JULIANA - 3 YEARS
Juliana: Let's kill
the bad guys!
Kevin: We don't have
to kill the bad guys. Maybe we can help them not be bad guys. That's why we
need Jesus.
Juliana: Jesus can
help us kill the bad guys!
Kevin: No, Jesus can
help them not be bad guys.
Juliana consults with
Jesus: Jesus said he will help kill the bad guys!
JULIANA - 3
YEARS
At dinner Juliana
said, "You can't eat God! Then he would be all gone in your tummy. And I
would get throw ups."
JULIANA - 4 YEARS
(Singing) You should
pray to Jesus, not to sticks and stones.
You should be nice to
Jesus.
MONSTERS!!
There's monsters in our
home.
MONSTERS!!
If you pray to sticks
and stones Jesus will send MONSTERS.
So how 'bout if you love
Jesus
Instead. of. sticks.
and. stooooones!
THE GIRLS - 10, 7, 5
YEARS
The girls swimming at
our hotel pool:
They started playing
"Baptism," which involved shoving someone backwards under the water
in a violent form of dunking and then quickly swimming away. Nadia was yelling,
"Help! I don't want to be baptized!"
Later Adalyn said,
"I want to be baptized in our church because they don't put you in the
water. But if I get baptized somewhere else, I will bring my goggles."
And my personal
favorite...
JULIANA, ADALYN - 6 AND
3 YEARS
From the bedroom...
Adalyn: I need my
blanket on!!
Juliana: Ask God
to help you.
Adalyn: I need my
blanket on!!
Juliana: God, I pray
that you would put Adalyn's blanket back on.
Adalyn: GOD'S NOT
HERE!!
