Kids Say the Darnedest Things

We moved Lexi to a preschool near my new work (no worries, I will blog about that eventually). Its a christian preschool that Jacob attended for 3 months when he and Jake moved back to NV prior to us girls. Jake almost nixed that idea when he went to sign her up and he saw an enormous "We love Jesus" sign plastered across the main entrance wall, but he decided to overlook that given that the preschool is so convenient and we were familiar with it. Plus, he reassured himself that he was exposed to Jesus for many years and it failed to make him a follower.

Lexi and I always seem to have the best conversations while I'm in the shower. She just sits there and tells me about her day or whats going on in her little 4 year old brain. It was no different yesterday. As I am lathering up my hair, she begins asking me if I knew that god made the stars and the sun and everything else. It was cute because we haven't really mentioned the whole god thing to her, so it was all brand new information to her. I explained that some people think that, but that nobody knows for sure.

"But my teachers know. And they also said that god made the food too".

"Didn't the farmers make the food?"

"Yeah, but god helped them make the food" she said adamantly.

I was kind of curious so I started picking her brain a little. I asked her who god was and what he looked like.

"He's a monster. But a nice one."

"So where does he live?" I asked, fully expecting to hear something along the lines of heaven or the sky or something.

"He lives inside us."

"Inside us? I don't want anything living inside me. How do I get him out?"

"Well" she says "you have to punch your belly and your legs and arms and maybe he will come out. Lets do it together because I don't want him living inside me either"

After a minute or so of jokingly beating ourselves up, she decides to tell me more about her concept of god.

"Mom, god does everything and makes everything. He even made your shower. And he even cleans it too. Except that really you clean it. We just say he cleans it." Then she smirks with her 'I know, I don't believe it either' smile.