Continuing Conversations with Julie...

Okay, I have some more comments from my precious little Julie. This time the conversations had a more "spiritual" tone to them:

-This afternoon we were playing a Noah's Ark matching game that she has. She was holding up the plastic Ark that goes to the game and she said "That's a nice Ark He built for the animals, God did a good job." I'm not sure if she was referring to the literal Ark, or the one made by Fisher Price...either way, I think she meant her compliment sincerely. :)

-A couple days ago I picked Julie up from school in the truck. Mind you our roads are windy, and the truck is a standard. I was concentrating on shifting gears and going around a bend when Julie yelled for me to look at something. I missed what she was looking at and she asked, "did you see that squirrel, mama?" When I said no I hadn't, she quickly answered, "that's okay, God made more."

When I told my husband about this I think it was a quick reminder to him that yes, God does make the squirrels...even though my husband prefers to hunt them with "my" BB Gun. :)

Julie is at such a fun age. Everything is so literal to her, and there is such innocence in what she says...well, except for when whe was telling daddy a lie tonight about wearing a clean shirt...but that's a whole other story. One minute she has me cracking up, the next we are having another "chat" about behavior. Kids...

Conversations with Julie...the drama queen

Tonight while I was doing up the supper dishes Dave gave the girls their baths. After baths Dave was trying to get Julie dressed for bed, and he was trying to put some Aquaphor (lotion) on her, to help with her dry skin. Julie determined that she wanted vaseline instead of Aquaphor, and began to argue with her dad. This earned her a "time out" on her bed. While in her room she was mumbling about her unhappiness and then we heard this outburst of "daddy hurts my feelings when he makes me use Aquaphor." Life is just so stinkin' hard when you're 4....

Not even 10 minutes later Dave was being silly and calling Alayna a "curly doodle." Julie proceeded to explain to him that calling people names is not nice and it hurts. She said that he should not call Alayna a "curly doodle," and he should not call her "sweetie." We were both kind of chuckling about this, when she ended the conversation by saying "You might call people names when you're mad, but I know you're the Pastor." Where does she come up with this stuff?