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A couple of Saturdays ago, I took the boys on a hike up the back of Kennesaw Mountain. Between climbing the biggest boulders they'd ever seen, traversing dangerously high knocked-over trees, and building a "house" to live in next time they come back, they pretty much had the most fun afternoon I've seen them have in a long time. They scampered up every inch of that mountain, ooh-ing and aaah-ing all the way. RECOMMENDED.
Mommy: "I can't believe you got the tree down in the front yard!"
Beau: "I know! Those guys are really strong and helped me a lot!"
Luke: "...when you said 'those guys', I couldn't tell if you're talking about us...cause you didn't say our names."
{overheard after the boys went to bed at night}
Silas: "Does the Bible really say that God loves us and we love him?"
Luke: "Yes."
Silas: "I want to read the Bible."
Well, that was easy enough. Faith got her first taste of solid food this last weekend and fell right in line with the rest of the human population. What's next?
Daddy: "Cain brought God some of his plants that he grew, but God wasn't happy with them, and Able brought to God his best sheep to sacrifice."
Luke: "So...probably the lambs that could do tricks and stuff...and the ones that couldn't, he kept."
{after going up and finding Silas still awake an hour after he went down for a nap}
Mommy: "Silas, are you still up?"
Silas: "Yes!"
Luke: "Good job, Silas!"
"I can run really fast because I have a cheetah on my shirt. Daddy can run faster than a cheetah with a broken leg...with only one broken leg."
"Mommy, I'm trying not to tell you something because I don't want you to know...but I'm going to tell you. I have army men and an army truck in my bed...{pause} I think I'm going to bring the army truck down because it's too big."
I never had to say a word!
Silas: "Look out, Daddy! You're stepping in the lava!"
Daddy: "Oh no! What do I do?"
Silas: "It's okay, Daddy. The lava just turned into dinosaurs that don't eat you."