Today I am thankful for Lydia (who is just under 2). I love her so much and she tells me often that she loves me and that we are friends. Despite being so little, she has a huge vocabulary and is very chatty. Here are some of today's gems.
Before eating her lunch (which, to be fair, did consist of olives), 'Thank you God for olives. Thank you God for sandwiches and olives. Thank you God for Laura and Rara (that's what she calls herself) and olives. Thank you for Mummy. And Mummy and olives....' I think she might like olives... I like that her prayers are so full of thanks - definitely an appropriate model for me to learn from!
Then, whilst eating lunch, she turned to me, 'What's wrong with you Laura?' (I was innocently sitting there - there were definitely no problems!).
A little later we were reading a book. There was a drawing of three cats looking sad because they had lost their mittens. 'They should just cuddle each other and then they'd be happy.' What a problem solver she is!
A little further on in the book, the illustration featured some hills, one of which had been coloured pink. 'It's meant to be grassy!' So clever!
And possibly my favourite quote of all, when praying before dinner, 'Thank you God for the trees blowing in the wind near the park...'. The prayer went on for quite a long time but I don't really know what else she said. She totally has a point that the trees blowing in the wind near the park were lovely and like James 1:17 says, that beauty and goodness is from God. I should be more thankful for such things myself. But given that we hadn't even talked about the trees, I found this a particularly amusing prayer!
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