Green Beans Go!!

As of lately I have been trying to teach Emma what the green and red traffic lights mean. When I was driving her home from Gymnastics on Thursday I kept hearing her say green beans. I had no clue what she was refering to and thought that maybe some of the trees leaves looked like green beans. Later that night when Jeff, Emma and I were driving to the store she said it again and I realized that she was refering to the traffic light. She thought I was teaching her to say "Green Beans Go" when the light turned green. She shortens it a little now and just yells GREEN BEANS, whenever we go through the light. The funny thing is she doesn't even like green beans. I can't help but laugh everytime we drive through a light. I thought about correcting her, but its too darn cute and I love hearing it!

Shes All Grown Up!!

So sometimes I have these moments when I realize that my baby girl isn't really a baby anymore.

One of Emmas favorite songs is I Love to See the Temple, so we decided that we would take a special trip one night and show her the Dallas temple. We were able to talk to her about how special it is and also to point out the angel Moroni on top. Now there are A LOT of churches here with really elaborate steeples on top and Emma gets really confused about the difference between churches and temples.She thinks that there are lots of temples here. So we told her if the gold Angel Moroni isn't on top, then it is just a church. Well on Sunday Jeff picked up a pass-a-long card with a picture of the Salt Lake Temple on it and gave it to her. She looks at it and says "A Temple!!" "A House of God, Mom" and then pointed out the angel Moroni on top. It was amazing to me that the words of a simple primary song could point out so perfectly what the Temple truly is and that someone so small could recall such a phrase at the right time. Sometime I think that the things I teach her go right in one ear and out the other and that I am getting no where. But its times like this that make me want to continue to teach her and lead her in the right direction in this world. So I guess what I'm saying is never give up, always take the teaching moment and someday your kids will surprise you.