A real-life, non-scripted, out-of-the-blue conversation over cake tonight:

Matthew: “I have a question.”

Mike: “Yeah?”

Matthew: “ Did God know that people would get like this, that they would have alot of sin in their heart?”

Mike: “Well, God knew everything, so He knew that people would get like that.”

Matthew: “Wait a minute! God’s in control of everything, so did God make it so that people had sin in their heart?”

The Big Pooh Bear

So we went to a yardsale and Sara found this Winnie-the-Pooh bear and fell in love with it. It is as big as she is-if not bigger, but she drags it all over the house. A favorite game is backing up, running, jumping, and landing on Pooh.

I love it when my kids fall in love with a stuffed animal. So much of the time they (the stuffed animals, not the kids) seem like mere dust-collectors. And then one is "found" again and loved to pieces. Sara recently found the Boz you see in the picture. For those of you who haven't met Boz, he's a big green bear who stars in a kids' cartoon by FamilyLife. We had moved past Boz with the older two children, so Sara was unacquainted with the cartoon. After a few days of her carrying the stuffed Boz around we pulled out the video. She was thrilled.