"dear god......"

mason has finally gotten to the point where he will say his own prayer at bedtime. this is last night:

"dear god, thank you for my little brother. thank you for mommy and daddy and myself. thank you for the house and the fan. the end."
how cool is i that his little brother comes first? awesome.

sometimes i am so blown away by his questions and quite frankly don't know how to respond. he asks me things like, is god inside of us? is jesus inside of us? did jesus walk on water? (i guess i should have been ready for the jesus questions since we do take him to church and to MOPS - but since i struggle with those same questions, well, it makes for intereseting convo with a 4 year old) why are the levits jewish? why aren't we jewish?

then there's the whole thing about santa clause. we went to my mother-in-laws country club to meet santa and have dinner on sunday. do i tell him thats the REAL santa? or a helper? we were telling him that sometimes santa sends a helper because he gets so busy getting ready for christmas eve. he was very adamant that santas helpers were elves. duh mommy. this whole parenting thing sure can be tricky. lately masons struggle to have control over his environment, ahem, ME, is coming out by him screaming and calling me ugly. good times.