Friday, December 18, 2009

Help Daddy to Catch Our Baby!

You've heard "kids say the darndest things"...well, here is a story that falls in that category.  This is cute and I just had to share it (sorry to those of you who have already heard it).

As you are aware we are in the adoption process again.  We've been approved for a little over a year and are really hoping to find a child for our family.  A few months ago Lindsey decided to start including her desire for a baby in her prayers.  It started out, "Heavenly Father, please send us a baby".  That continued for awhile, then it changed to "Heavenly Father, please help Daddy to catch our baby".  (We thought that was interesting but didn't really say anything about it.)  A week or two later it changed to "Heavenly Father, please help my Daddy to catch our baby in a net".  (Okay, so that was just funny.  Where did that come from?)  So a little more time went by, then one day Lindsey and I were ready Dumbo and at the beginning of the story Dumbo's mom is hoping for a baby very badly when she sees all the other animal mothers receiving a baby.  When you look at the picture in the book, what do you think you see?  It was a total "light bulb" moment for me!  There were storks delivering the baby animals in blankets.  Aha!  I asked Lindsey if this is why she had been asking Heavenly Father to help Daddy to catch our baby.  She looked at me with a big smile and said "Yes!"  It was great.  I then got to explain to her that that wasn't how babies come, instead they come in mommy's tummies...just not her mommy's and that is why we are hoping to adopt another baby.  Now we are back to hearing, "Heavenly Father, please send us a baby" and get to tell this very cute and funny story.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

That is so funny! She is such a cutie!

Janell said...

I love this story!