Cute children stories
A few favorite quotes and stories from our kids and holiday vacation recently:
1) When we were visiting some friends of ours in Logan over the holiday break, a family showed up at the party (unrelated to us) and K. boldly introduced herself by saying, “Hi, we’re your new cousins. You’ll get used to us!”
Where does she get this kind of stuff? 
2) D. received the challenge from the Primary to read the Book of Mormon this year, and they gave her the first reading chart for 1st Nephi and told her she’d get a prize when she completed it. D. loves challenges, reading, and prizes, so she jumped on this one. Within 24 hours she finished 1st Nephi, start to finish. I couldn’t believe it, so I started quizzing her every few chapters about what she had read, and she really did read it—and understood it. Wow. Now she is charging through 2nd Nephi and I’m curious what will happen when she hits Isaiah. Hmmm.
She’s been so preoccupied with reading the Book of Mormon that I’ve found myself saying things I thought I would never say, like, “D. put down the Book of Mormon and listen!” or “Do not read that Book of Mormon until you have done X.”
I never thought I would ever be telling my child NOT to read the scriptures because they were reading them too much. Weird!
3) While we were visiting friends in Provo and in Logan, Utah, K. was in her best early bird form. Each morning she woke up VERY early (about 5:30 or 6 a.m.) and snuck out of the room where we were sleeping and wandered upstairs where she found the mother up with a baby in each home. Then she chatted off the mom’s ear each time and entertained the baby. What a nut! She is such an early riser, full of energy, each morning. She used to wake up at 6 a.m. and come to our bedroom door and crow like a rooster to wake us up. This same child crashes early at night and will frequently put herself to sleep. We’ll look around and go, where is K., and find her in bed already.
4) K. has a tradition–two years now and running–of singing Christmas carols on the plane ride out to Utah for the holidays. We’ve had some of the passengers tell us they enjoy it. Hopefully they are not lying.
5) We flew into Las Vegas this year (because it’s cheaper than Salt Lake) only hours before the airport closed due to snow. Whew! We probably would have been rerouted to Arizona or something. Then we were snowed in at my parent’s place in Idaho and couldn’t go to church. Remind me why we want to live out in Utah again?
–posted by Rick
