Hi, God.

You know how most pictures depicting God show an old man with white hair and a long white beard? Well, there's a man who goes for a daily walk down our street who has white hair and a long white beard and the other day he happened to walk by as Grant and Maggie were sitting on the front porch and Maggie said, "That guy looks like God! Can you say hi to him, dad?" Maggie was really intrigued by his walking stick, too.

This morning I was reading a blog by one of my favorite writers, Catherine Newman, and I read a paragraph of it out loud to Grant and Maggie. Maggie listened quietly and then said, "Do you want to hear my computer and the things that it says?" And then she ran into Grant's office to get "her" computer keyboard (the one she's playing on in the photo below) and brought it into the kitchen to "read" things from it to us.

Maggie LOVES weddings and went through a kick where she watched my wedding DVD daily. For the past few weeks she's been saying she's going to get married and she's going to have a baby in her belly. I say, "After you get married you can have a baby in your belly" but she corrects me and says, "No, WHEN I get married I'll have a baby in my belly." And we have a whole conversation about it but she's still pretty insistent. Good thing that's a long time from now :)