Mommy Birthdays...

5-year old [informatively]: Mom, there's something that I'm just not going to tell you about.

Mommy: Okay.

5-year old [with seriousness]: And don't come downstairs, because there's something that we're working on.

Mommy [matched solemness, hidden smile]: Okay, I'll remember that!

Food is Beautiful

God made real food beautiful... especially pomegranates!  I think the color and appearance of the inside flesh of a pomegranate is my favorite out of all fruits and vegetables; the deep scarlet color shines and has a glossy depth to it. 

-For easy preparation, cut the top 1/4-inch off, slit each side about a 1/4-inch deep where you see the white part forming sections. 
-Soak the whole thing in a bowl of cold water for about 10 minutes and then pull it apart, gently working the small pieces out into the water with your fingers.  (Keep the whole thing submerged while your work at this.)
-When you've removed all of the pieces from the white part, strain the water out and enjoy the fruits of your labor!

These are sweet and tart with a nice crunch.  The perfect Fall fruit!

Toddlers and Plastic Wrap

 The two items are not typically a recommended combination.

This combo, however, was discovered shortly after the raiding of the kitchen drawer occurred.  Intervention (i.e. confiscation) occurred shortly thereafter.  This must have been like a dream come true, though.  It seems to me that pulling and yanking the plastic wrap off from its roll in unhindered amounts would be similar having the opportunity to grab the toilet paper and trail it all through the house while still attached to the wall next to the toilet (this has happened to various extents with each child), yank all of the wipes out of the wipe container one at a time (a favorite activity of the pictured child), squeeze all of the toothpaste out of the tube at once (has not happened... YET), or
 taking part in any other type of activity involving a roll or amount of material neatly confined to its packaging!

As a side note, in our family, this stuff (plastic wrap) has worked notably well in pranks- particularly when one has a rather large roll of the stuff to wrap around another person's vehicle.  That's a whole another story, for another time and another place!

Notable Conversations

Recently, Silas spent a day with Daddy "on-the-job." Their errands took them to Lowes (an all-purpose home and lumber store). While checking out, the sales clerk struck up a conversation with Silas.

Clerk: "So, what are you going to be for Halloween?"

Silas: "We don't celebrate Halloween. It's Satan's holiday."

Clerk: "Well, we didn't celebrate Halloween as kids, either. It's okay to be different. Do you celebrate Christmas?"

Silas: "Yeah, that's when we celebrate Jesus."

David's thought on this is: If only we had more child evangelists! Or rather, if only we had the honesty of children.

Recent quote...

The kids are encouraged to share compliments with each other to help combat unkind words.
Sometimes they get it, and sometimes, well...

Silas: "Amelie, you're as pretty as I am."

or biblical complaints...

Silas: "Daddy- Amelie smote me!"