Now mommy can wrestle, too

So, some of you know, one of our kids' favorite thing to do is wrestle with daddy - tackling, rolling on the floor, tickling, squashing, jumping, screaming kind of wrestling. Well, after dinner, the kids started to ramp up with daddy, but daddy quickly turned all three of them on their mommy as we ambushed her, began to tickle her, knocked her to the floor, and the kids created a dog pile on her. Of course, all this amidst mommy's screams of joy...or maybe for help, it was kinda muffled at that point. As I walked away, pleased with my successful manuever, I announced to the kids, "Hey, now that mommy doesn't have baby Lucy in her tummy anymore, she can wrestle with you all the time." Again, it was hard to hear Steph's response from her defensive position at the bottom of the pile, but I'm sure she was elated.

Unfortunately, the wrestling abruptly ended with Matty doing a flying butt drop on top of Emily on top of mommy. Ahhhhh, good times.

What!?!, its not Family Home Jesus

Its always amazing how a child's mind works but more importantly its always funny what a child says. Let me share with you something Emily said last night, Monday night, Family Home Evening night.

When I got home, we had turned the music on and Emily was showing off all her wild dance moves (in fact, Steph was also showing off some of her moves). Then she had to sit down and do some homework while Steph and I were working on dinner. She then said, very excitedly, "Oh, I know what we can do for Family Home Evening! We could turn on the music and we could all dance. I mean, we're a Family, we're in our Home, and we do it tonight. We're not breaking any rules. We don't always have to do something about Jesus." I was just smiling at her out of amusement but she must have interpretted it differently because she defended her idea to the next level, "What? Its not called Family Home Jesus."

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