A letter does not blush...unless it is an Epistle

For Family Home Evening on Monday, Mac decided to give a lesson on how half of the New Testament is actually letters. Mac did this because Marley has started writing a little more and is understanding the concept of the written letter and Mac had a bunch of letters to send out for the Bishop that he was working on, so it all made sense to talk about the New Testament and how a lot of the books are actually letters.

Anyway, he gave a really good explanation of this idea. He was telling Marley that before there were phones and email people used to communicate by writing letters. This was quite a foreign concept to Marley. Mac loves to teach Marley new words that are not typcially part of the 5 year old vocabulary, so he taught her the world "Epistle". We repeated it a few times to make sure she could say it, etc. Marley then wrote a letter to Bro. Ellison in our ward who had knee surgery telling him she missed seeing him at church and hoped he felt better soon. She wrote it on Hello Kitty Stationary and closed it with a dog sticker (what a crazy kid, doesn't she know dogs and cats hate each other....that is a lesson for another time). When we were finished we reviewed what we had learned and asked her the following "What is another word for a letter?" She thought really hard for a second and then yelled "Piss!" We all kind of chuckled about that and then laughed at ourselves for not forseeing the association she would make when she wasn't able to recall the entire word! I think for the next FHE we will do a lesson out of a book!

A few other things she had told me this week that made me laugh:

• On Saturday I was getting onto her about cleaning her room. I told her I used to have to clean my room , bathroom, dust the living room and vacuum on Saturdays before I got to do fun things with friends. She protested this argument by telling me that "that was the olden days, we don't do it that way now!"
• Driving home from Florence yesterday we drove by a farm and it smelled like manure. We were joking with her that we thought it was her that was stinky and he said "Oh, that reminds me of something back from the Christmas parade there was a horse that pooped on the street in the parade and it was golden!" Now, I realize this doesn't really sound that funny, but the parade was December 10th, 2007 and she hasn't made on mention of that curious sight until now. Plus the golden poop thing. Kids are crazy. I told her I wished we had a horse that pooped out gold.
• Jack I suppose deserves some face time too. He doesn't say much, but yesterday at IHOP (It was National Pancake Day) a toddler was crying really loud and he looked around pointing his finger and said "Guying....NO!"