Growing up........kind of

Yesterday, I took Katie and Beth with me to the evening mass. Afterwards, while Beth picked acorns for her "nature collection" (a plastic bag with various rotting and molding specimens from the great outdoors. This is her greatest treasure, and she always "needs" to pick up a new acorn after mass,) Katie paraphrased the homily for me. She remembered it remarkably well, and had understood the gist of it.

Afterwards, we ran to the pharmacy and then to the store, and Katie bagged the groceries while I used the self-checkout. As we left, I complimented her on the great job she did bagging (she really did!) and she replied, "Well, I was just pretending that I was on Endurance (a rip-of off Survivor for kids) and I had their music in my head."

After reflecting a moment, she said, "I think I'm becoming very grown up. I have a lot of grown-up thoughts now."