Random conversation bits

I love talking with my kids and getting insight into how they see the world. They are so fun. On the way home from Grandma and Grandpa's tonight they were especially talkative. Here are some random little exerpts from our converstations.

Hayden: "When I'm grown up, on the first day I'm going to light off fireworks, then on the second day I'm going to go buy some firefighter clothes and be a fireman."

(I think it's so cute that it's something that just happens - one day you are all the sudden a grown up -that's day 1.)

Rebecca wants to be a girl when she grows up. When prompted for more she said she'd be a girl in space, although I think she was cheating because I had asked if Hayden would ever want to be an astronaut.

We asked Hayden if he wants to be a missionary before he's all grown up - but almost grown up (when I've asked him in the past he said he couldn't be a missionary because he was going to be a firefighter.) He said, "Um, Maybe." We talked a little more about what a missionary gets to do to help others learn about the church and the Book of Mormon. He said, "Yeah, but I don't know everything about Jesus yet." We talked a bit about how some people don't know anything about Heavenly Father and Jesus, and he'll be able to teach them what he knows and he's learning more all the time. He got excited and said, "I know about the Holy Ghost! I can teach them about the Holy Ghost!"

Rebecca: "Mom, take a guess, tell me if I have one eye, or two."

Rebecca: (Very angrily) "Dad, you have to let me watch Belle (Beauty and the Beast) or I'm going to buy all the cookies and never give you any!"

They are just funny, cute little kids. We had a very fun weekend, but very busy with not a lot of sleep, and tonight we had a great time at my in-laws having a 4th of July BBQ and doing fireworks. But one of my favorite parts of the already great night was sitting on the porch with my two little girls singing requested songs to them, and then listening to Rebecca make up and sing songs to me. She is SO fun. It was just one of those moments that I looked at my precious little children, Rebecca dancing and singing a beautiful song of her own creation, Sydney rocking gently in my lap, till she saw something intriguing that she had to explore, just to come back a few minutes later to show me and cuddle again, and Hayden running around happily with his cousins yelling about their favorite fireworks, suddenly seeming so grown up - (but not quite at day one yet) and thought, "How did I get so lucky?" They are all so individual, with their own special little personalities that are so unique and wonderful. I truly love those sweethearts!