Notable Quotables

It is Sunday morning and I am two days from being due with my fourth child. Arianna says: Why do you have bags under your eyes?
I try to explain how hard it is to sleep at night and that I am RATHER swollen all over and then I ask her if she thinks I ought to do something about it.
A: yea, I saw a commercial for some stuff...and the first 100 callers get a free gift if they call right now.
I just had to laugh. I LOVE infomercials, don't you?!

I am not going to go into the conversational details of this one, but Enzo continues to be confused about the difference between burping and passing gas. He often asks me which one comes out of your mouth. Just sitting down to write that brings a flood of hillarious conversations to mind that we have had with him about the subject...I will spare you the details, but you can probably imagine well enough for yourself. I sure hope he gets those cleared up in his mind before too long!

Last night before bed Enzo rounded up a few stuffed animals for bed. Massimo had to follow suit, as usual. I was in the animal bin asking him what animals he would like. He alread had a bear and a dog but now he wanted a chickie (because his brother had one) and a cat. None of that is humorous, what is so 'notable' is his speech impediment. Neither of my other kids have had such trouble with pronounciation so I am just loving this! He said he needed a 'titty-tat' and a 'dickie'. Anyone else find that as funny as I did?? That is what he needed to rest at night.

And on a not-so-humurous note I read an article about the atonement that explained repentance in such a visual way that I had to record it somewhere, so here it is:

Why is it necessary for us to suffer on the way to repentance for serious transgressions? We tend to think of the results of repentance as simply cleansing us from sin, but that is an incomplete view of the matter. A person who sins is like a tree that bends easily in the wind. On a windy and rainy day, the tree bends so deeply against the ground that the leaves become soiled with mud, like sin. If we focus only on cleaning the leaves, the weakness in the tree that allowed it to bend and soil its leaves may remain. Similarly, a person who is merely sorry to be soiled by sin will sin again in the next high wind. The susceptiblility to repetition continues until the tree has been strengthened. When a person has gone through the process that results in what the scriptures call 'a broken heart and a contrite spirit,' the Savior does more than cleanse that person from sin. He gives him or her new strength. That strengthening is essential.... To enter His presence we must be more than clean. We must also be changed from a morally weak person who has sinned into a strong person with the spiritual stature to dwell in the presence of God. Forsaking involves a fundamental change in the individual.

-Elder Dallin H. Oaks of the Twelve