The Holy Rollers

Leo has been picking up lots of new words lately. I thought most of them were only comprehensible to me, but apparently Emily can understand him too. Yesterday on our way home from mass, I heard the very first conversation between brother and sister. It went like this:

Leo: "Bye bye Je-dus! Bye bye Mawee"
Emily: "Yes Leo! Bye Mary and Jesus! Leo, did you see what was on Mary's dress?"
Leo: "taws!!!"
Emily: "Yes Leo! Stars!

I was beaming in the front seat. I was thinking, finally! All of these years of daily mass is finally paying off. They must love Mary so much to have been looking closely enough to notice her dress. Emily will tell him just exactly what those stars symbolize. My kids are genius! She'll tell him about Juan Diego, and how her mommy and daddy went to visit to see the REAL tilma! They'll be so faithful!

The conversation continued:
Emily: "You see, Leo, Our blessed mother Mary loves shopping. She gets in her car, and goes to buy lots and lots of outfits so she can show off to her other family."
Leo: "Yeah!"

Womp Womp. I tried to give Emily a little lesson on materialism, but she could care less. Oh well, God always sends me a dose of humility right when I need it most:)



Our Lady of Guadalupe, pray for us!

It's time to dust off the ol' blog

Well there's really nothing that compares to the "nesting" hormones of pregnancy to kick you into action on all things procrastinated since the birth of your last child. Hence the newly found inspiration to revive the blog. I'm pretty sure that I mentioned Leo all but maybe twice, and here he's about to turn two in a couple months. You've just got to know this happy kid!



And cheers to Emily's very overactive creative brain that yeilds silly little thoughts that just make my day. I'm sure you'll here a lot of these stories. Tonight after crawling out of bed for the 5th time, she said to me "Mommy when I used to be a daddy buck, I was pregnant with cute little quails. And then I washed a skunk at the beach and he was stinky, so I built a cantilever so I wouldn't have to smell him."



I'm telling you, I just can't make this stuff up. And also, I had to look up cantilevers to see if they even existed. I always knew my kids would be smarter than me--I just didn't know it would happen when my kid was only 3!