Temple Birthday Cake

So, Temples are a big deal in my church. Big deal. So it is pretty cool if your 2-year-old shows an interest in them in any way. You know, Jesus is a complicated concept, but you can actually drive by a temple to see it and talk about. So your chances are a little higher that your little one will jump on the Temple train before the Jesus bandwagon.

The other night (after that CRAZY Friday with the painting and the party and my shoes falling on every time I tried to get in the car because my thighs kept bumping into my belly) Quinn and I were laying in my bed because I did not have the energy to put her to bed. So we just talked for awhile. Out of nowhere she pointed to a painting we have of the Nauvoo Temple in our room and said, "A House."



I said, "That's not really a house. It is a Temple."

"A Tempo?"

"Yeah, it's like a church but it is really big and really special. It is Jesus' house. It's a big deal."

"Tempol," she said with a ponder.

"Yeah, there is a song about it. Do you want to sing it?" I started singing the Mormon Classic, "I love to see the temple." She started singing along, which was crazy because she had never tried to sing along with any other song accept the ABC's. I just tried to cherish the moment in my Mormon heart but not take too much stock in it because ... ah ... she's 2.

Really tall ... but still only 2.

Anyway, the Temple conversations have continued. She's a big fan.

Tonight, she wanted me to draw her pictures on her mini magna doodle. I drew words, letters, flowers, people, scribbles, and then I started drawing Temples for her to color. She liked that so much that she asked daddy to do it for her when he got home. I had been drawing St. George style temples.



He drew Salt Lake.




Then he drew a Provo Temple. It is no secret that the Provo Temple resembles a birthday cake. Apparently, so did Tim's picture because when he showed it to her, she immediately started blowing at it!




We had a good laugh, and it reminded me to keep things in perspective -- Even important things like Temples ... and Birthday Cakes.



P.S. Along those lines I loved hearing a story from Heidi about how her little Mae (also 2) has misunderstood the words to "I love to see the temple." The song says, "For the Temple is a house of God. A place of love and beauty ..."

Instead she sings, "A place of sleeping beauty..." And she continues to think that the different Disney Princesses live in the different temples. Ariel apparently frequents the Salt Lake Temple, according to Mae-Mae. Perspective.