Making sense of our world...

I've been meaning to post a few comical interchanges with Hannah Kate recently....

1. This morning while I was getting ready in our bathroom, Hannah Kate was perusing through her dad's closet. Hanging to the right side of his door are his ties. "Daddy's bibs!" I heard her announce proudly as she tugged on them.

2. A few weeks ago, I was hurriedly trying to get everyone moving towards the door and out in time one morning. I always call, "Come on, Hank" to get him headed for the laundry room, where he stays while we're gone. And he wasn't coming so I kept prodding, "Come on, Hank". I scooped up HK's bag, her jacket, her milk, her breakfast, my purse, my jacket and was looking for my keys as we swept through the kitchen. I was also toting HK in my arms....when she spotted a little crucifix that we kept on the kitchen counter. "Come on, Jesus" I heard her say and her little fingers grasped Him up during our exodus. "That's right, Hannah Kate. We do need to ask Jesus to come with us this morning," was all I could manage to get out. Profound.

"Happy Halloween!" said the peacock...

We had such a fun day yesterday with Halloween! Hannah Kate is still recovering from the sugar induced coma that she experienced last night due to 7 suckers in a row and not too much real supper (plus the cupcakes and cheese puffs and candy bars and smarties and ....) but boy did she have fun! And she was in great spirits the whole night. She had a Halloween parade and party at school yesterday afternoon to start off the high-fructose-corn-syrup "high". She posed for a quick second with our friend Tri after the school party. We stopped by daddy's office to trick-or-treat with Mimi and Papaw. Mimi was so smart to load up a little bag with banana, apple, and pear- sprinkled in with a few sweet treats for us! Then home to help pass out candy for some trick-or-treaters at our door. (some for you, some for me, some for you, more for me -kind of system) And finally to celebrate a birthday for our friend Caroline! She even wore her peacock hat all night without fretting with it (even "no, daddy" when Daniel tried to take it off- boy did she get into costume!) An overall 5 sucker (star) night!