God Made Us Hot Chocolate

It rained on Sunday, so after church Abby and I splashed in the puddles for awhile, and then came in to have some hot chocolate. While we were having our excuse for eating marshmallows, Abby started telling us about the nursery, and she told us "God gives us food!" We were kind of excited - it was the first time she told us what she had learned in the nursery (we usually hear about the toys she played with and maybe what they had for a snack) so we asked her some questions about what food God gives us. She told us apples, and then we started asking her about some of her favorite foods.

Mom: Does God give us raisins?
Abby: Yeah! God gives us raisins!
Dad: Does God give us cereal?
Abby: God gives us cereal!
Mom: Does God give us hot chocolate?
Abby: God made us hot chocolate!

I'm not sure if she meant "gave," or if she's picturing God in the kitchen with a teakettle.

In other news, it looks like Nora's going to be a reader. This was the third time in a row through the book, so she wasn't as excited as she was the first time (which was full of squeals and reaching for the book) but she's still definitely VERY interested.



Adam and I took Abby to the Indianapolis Zoo on Saturday after her birthday to celebrate. She was pretty excited about it at breakfast that morning.



She looked pretty cool in her new sunglasses, ready to head out! (Note the Colts socks in honor of our Indianapolis destination.)



We had a pretty good car ride - Abby was happy and talked about all the animals we were going to see. After about two hours, we were there!



Dad was excited that we could see the Colts' stadium from the zoo parking lot.



Once we got into the zoo, we got to see lots of fun animals. Abby had a great time being carried around and getting to decide which animals we were going to see next. She also really enjoyed watching all the other people at the zoo. She hardly ate any lunch because she was so busy watching the other families around us. The only disappointment was that the penguins were off exhibit while they were redoing the habitat. Abby took it pretty well, though.

Some highlights:















About ten minutes into the ride home, Abby was fast asleep. All in all, a great trip!



The next day was Nora's 4 month birthday, which we celebrated with the traditional Twinkie.