week plans

Attention Portlanders: I'm looking to take my kids to the zoo and maybe to OMSI this week. If you'd like to join us we'd love the company. It'd just be for the morning. I get a free guest at the zoo!

sex ed from a 2 1/2 year old boy

my conversation with nate after he used the toilet this morning.

Nate: I have a penis. Daddy has a penis. Mommy has a penis.
Me: No, buddy, Mommy doesn't have a penis.
Nate: Mommy has a mustache!

typical male?

nate has cracked me up this morning. yesterday, i bought the boys a little toy golf set, but it was pouring rain all afternoon.
the first words out of nate's mouth when i walked in his room this morning.

"i pooped."
"i wanna play golf."

What do you want to pray for tonight?

The title of this blog is the question we posit to our boys every night before we got to bed. We've only been doing it for a couple weeks. I realized we weren't really including them in bedtime prayers and I wanted to get them a) to sit down and b) to realize that praying is really important and bigger than us. I figured a simple question would get responses like "Grandma" or "Mommy" or something - things we've prayed about before.

So, they have said the same thing every time we've asked. It goes something like this: "ephelants" "no, i want ephelants" "monkeys and gorillas." You have to love 2 year old prayers, right? But I was faithful, and we prayed specifically for elephants, monkeys and even more specifically for endangered gorillas - that was about a week ago.

Then I read this today. Sometimes I really underestimate God. Today I a) sat down and b) realized that praying is really important and bigger than us.