Audra's Wonderland

Today Audra and I went outside to water our garden. I was greeted by one of my broccoli plants pretty much demolished. I had just checked on it yesterday evening and had not seen anything unusual but a few holes. That is pretty common because I don't like to use pesticides. I looked at one of the last decent looking leaf and found this little guy.

MY POOR POOR PLANT! 

How could something so small destroy a big plant. I wanted to smash him, but Audra was already excited. So instead we put it in her bug holder and she is thrilled. She says it is adorable and so tiny and cute.

The caterpillar had to set by us at lunch so she could keep and eye on it. As she was looking in she looks up and said...

"Mom, I am going to say it is a girl."

"Ok, What are you going to name her."

"Humm.... What about Leila? If it was a boy I would name him John Xavier."

"Oh like Ms. Caitlin and Aunt Kim's babies?" (Leila and John Xavier are the names of their babies they are pregnant with)

"Yeah, but it is a girl. I will name it Leila, but I will call it something different when it turns into a butterfly though."

"Why is that?"

"Because when something changes it gets a different name. God changed people's names all the time in the Bible when they had changed. I think the caterpillar will need a different name then."


Say what? Is she really FOUR? Sometimes it is so hard for my to remember how young she is with the way she reasons and thinks. I have never gone into much detail about name changes in the Bible. We read stories about and from the Bible, but I do not have theological discussion's with her in great depths yet. She just took stories and processed it and came up with the correct reason someone got a different name in the Bible.

Of course I am brought back to reality that she is four when about five minutes later she is trying to be superman and jump from couch to couch and I have to remind her to stop so she doesn't get hurt OR she decides taking out every book from her book shelf to read is a lot more fun than one at a time. But I just know that God has gifted our child with something special. She is just insightful beyond her years and I know it is going to be used mightily if she lets God direct her. She is going to do great things. I feel hugely blessed that Ryan and I have the privilege to raise her and see her grow each day into a young lady. My mini Theologian.