Auntie update

Two cute moments that needed to be recorded for grams and gramps in Australia.

I went over to Lisa and Shawn's house on Friday night and they were having pizza with another family. Shawn asked who wanted to say grace on the food and Max jumped up real quick-like and began to pray.

I have to admit that as he was saying the blessing I was really straining to understand what the heck he was saying, but I only caught the words food, safe and play. As he said Amen, the kid sitting across the table from him responded loudly and clearly with, "I didn't understand a word that came out of his mouth!"

I had to agree, but thought it could have been addressed a little more kindly.

Second moment really captures Aviva, Kristin's 1 year old little girl. Kristin is more and more thrilled every time she sees a new obnoxious behavior from this child because she thinks it's just like she was. We'll see how much she likes it when that attitude is directed at her from a teenage daughter.


Anyway, Aviva and ginormous cousin Ben, just 7 months older were playing. A boy came over and took their toy and pushed Ben. Ben, the huge, older one started crying because he has a very tender little heart. Aviva on the other hand was on fire. As I scooped her up off the floor she flung her body around so she could see over my shoulder where the little boy had gone and the whole time she was screaming a wild epithet of indistinguishable words at this boy. None of us needed a translator however. It was perfectly clear that little boy was getting a serious piece of her mind.

So while Kristin's kids are different ages, and different genders they do share one thing in common. No one can understand a WORD either of them says. And they're real cute. And they got big time attitude. But mostly, you can't understand 'em.