The after meal games were of particular interest to any saber-tooth tiger fans out there. Josiah decided it was time to dress up as one and proceeded to tape straws to his upper lip and then, before i was aware of it, all clothes were off, with the exception of the underwear, and stripes were being drawn all over his body. Noelle, who had been painting (at first a picture, but then her hands) immediately joined in the fun when she noticed that it was "mark all over almost naked body" time. Noelle also managed to find some straws (pink, of course), to tape to her upper lip. Isaac was preoccupied with finishing up both of their milkshakes (which they claimed to not like: what kind of child does not like chocolate raspberry banana milkshake? Isaac and i couldn't understand it). Josiah then started roaming the living room like a tiger when suddenly he wanted to know if we could fill the living room with mud puddles for him to walk through. When i said no he asked if he could be ruler of his bedroom- and i said no (knowing that mud puddles were in the picture if i said yes). I told him that when he got bigger and moved out he could have as many mud puddles in his house as he wanted. Now, one would think that a 5 year old wouldn't see through this empty promise- but, not Josiah- He responded quickly with, "but by that time i won't be a kid and i'll have to work all day."

So, we only had big questions from Josiah (our precocious 5 year old) today. The morning begun with, "does God make the volcano erupt?" which, inevitably led into a discussion about the problem of evil. By evening, the topic was a little easier with, "Why are their priests?" (he says "priestiz"). At one point, we told Josiah that we were as old a Catholic as he was- that dad and mom and he were all 4 year old Catholics and Noelle piped up at that point excitedly saying, "yeah, that's because Jesus is our daddy!"