A couple kid funnies...

So we are coming home from church tonight and the kid's had a couple good ones. Today is Ash Wednesday and we went over to church for a special service. We decided that for lent as a family we are giving up TV. I am sorry to say, but for us this will be quite sacrificial. Anyways, this evening service marked the beginning of lent for us. So, no video for the kids on the way home. Leah and Logan knew it was coming (they helped us choose this), but we had to explain to the kids that we were not going to watch a DVD because we are going to take a few weeks to focus more on Jesus. Madeline asked if she could still watch cartoons at home, and we said no. Anna was pretty quiet, but then all of a sudden she very boldly declared, "Mom. Dad. You guys are being mean!" She said this with her arms crossed and a ton of attitude. It was so funny. We tried to explain again why we weren't going to watch tv, but she was very unimpressed. She had the four older ones in the car laughing out loud.

Since we had no DVD on the way home, Madeline felt to need to talk all. the. way. home. We even asked her a couple times if she could just stop talking for a couple minutes. Maddie talks a lot, but even more so when she is tired. Anyways, we had the radio going and Ryan actually flipped it to a country station. An oldie from Alabama came on and Madeline said "turn this up, I like this song." Ryan turned it up a bit and Madeline then said "this is a cowboy song." It was just cute. Ryan and I use to listen to country music a lot in high school. Now we rarely do, so I guess that type of music is somewhat of a novalty to our kids.

Speaking of Madeline, she is definitely going through a time of enlightenment. She is really starting to piece together the mysteries of life and is maturing so much. Right now she is really into everything Jesus. It is so cool to watch. She is listening intently at church and can repeat her bible verse and tell us about the story weeks later. In church tonight we were reading out loud together about how Jesus was tempted by satan. Madeline started going on about how she knew that story and how Jesus "didn't listen to satan." It is just Jesus talk almost every day. I can't really tell you how much I love to see her so interested in her Savior.

Julie