our lady of naughtiness...

little S has started her very first atrium class this year. it has been really sweet hearing her sing some of the songs and have a general interest in anything she sees that is somewhat religious. however.... the girls have this really bad habit of carrying around toys whenever we go somewhere. they get to pick one little toy to carry and it's always a big ordeal since they usually want what the other one has. once everything is smoothed out we can be on our way and they are happy to carry their prized possession for the moment. well, S found a little statue of Mary that she wanted to carry around. i thought it was so sweet and i was so proud that she was having a little religious moment. she seemed so angelic carrying it around. well..... as you can imagine i was so surprised when i overheard what S was saying in her high pitched pretend voice...

"Mary doesn't like clouds, she hates clouds (she also has a really bad habit forming with that word at the present moment)" then she made a very quiet soft spitting noise. apparently Mary didn't like a lot of things that day and wanted to pretend spit on anything we walked past. i took away the statue and told her she needed to say nice things to people. she begged for it back later in the car and i let her have it as long as she was being respectful. she took it to noni's, she held it tightly in her hand in the car, and spent the rest of the day with it. later that afternoon, my awesome neighbor wanted to have a play date with S, so i dropped her off. she called me 10 min. later and said S was upset because she forgot something but she couldn't quite make out what she was saying. i swallowed, and had to explain that she was missing her statue. i think i confirmed to her that we are completely nuts over here.