MJ talk

The night before Easter the kids all pick which Easter basket they are going to use for that year. There is one basket that is quite a bit smaller than the other ones that usually the youngest in the family has used - but we have enough that no one has to use that one. MJ (who was 4 at the time) explained to me why she wasn't picking the little basket this year, "When I was 3 I had to have the little basket, but then I grew up and now I get to choose my basket!"

When I was getting the girls dressed in their Easter dresses I wanted the younger two to wear slips with their dresses, but the ones that they have weren't going to work so I borrowed some half slips from the older girls. I had one on MJ and was trying to put a safety pin in it to cinch up the waist so that it wouldn't fall off of her. She was scared while I was doing it so I said, "I don't think that safety pin is very sharp." To which she responded, "But it's sharp to me!"

One day we were saying a morning family prayer and instead of MJ naming everyone who was going to be leaving and asking them to come home safely she said, "Bless those 6 that they can come home safe." I'm not sure how/when she figured out that there were going to be 6 people leaving!!