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Kids say the cutest things!

My daughter, Heather Lynn, had trouble pronouncing the letter "L" when she was three years old. Instead of saying Heather Lynn, she would say Heather Yynn.

One day she ran up to me, gave me a big hug and said, "I yove you, Mommy!"

Using the opportunity to help her pronunciation I replied, "I love you, too, Heather, but it's 'love' not 'yove.' Do you understand?"

To which she proudly exclaimed, running off to play, "Les!"

—Cathy Roberts & Heather Bennett
Victor, West Virginia

When I was expecting my first baby, a six-year-old neighborhood girl was particularly curious. She wanted to see the baby furniture and hear our list of possible names.

When she asked where the baby was, I was a walking show-and-tell even at four months. But then she asked the question that probably had been foremost in her mind: "How did the baby get in there?"

"I think you'd better ask your mother about that," I said.

"Oh, I tried that," she confessed. "Nobody in my family knows!"

—Mary L. Hickey
Kirkersville, Ohio

As a safety reminder, our granddaughter Barbara and her second-grade classmates were advised by their teacher to check the smoke alarms at home to see if they were operating.

"Oh, I know ours works," Barbara assured her teacher. "My mom tests it everytime she cooks."

—Thomas LaMance
Prewitt, New Mexico

Driving seventeen hours to the beach for a week's vacation took its toll on all of us, especially four-year-old Katie. Strapped in her child seat for hours at a time, she expressed the tedium we all felt when we finally exited for our motel. She plaintively asked, "Can I please be excused?"

—Beth Caldwell
Normal, Illinois

In Mexico City, 7,500 feet above sea level, it is rarely hot, but one day, years ago, was a scorcher. Trying to cope with the heat, our youngest daughter, Debbie, shed all but her panties.

"Debbie, what are you doing running around half naked?" I asked.

"Well," she replied, "you want me to be half decent, don't you?"

—Thomas E. Fountain
Vidalia, Georgia

My husband and I teach children's church. I was telling the boys and girls, ranging in age from four to eleven, that we all are born in sin, but by grace are saved through faith. One of the younger girls first looked puzzled, then said quite seriously, "I wasn't born in sin. I was born in November."

—Peggy Jones
Marion, Virginia

A friend of my eleven-year-old son called one day, announcing he had a problem with spiritual warfare. I asked him what I could do to help, and he replied he wanted to speak with my son, Scott. Proud that my son was being asked for spiritual advice, I later made a point to ask him how the conversation went.

"Oh, fine," Scott replied. "He just needed help getting to the next level of the 'Spiritual Warfare' Nintendo game."

—Chris Johnson
Britt, Minnesota

My four-year-old daughter had just learned to dial the phone unassisted. To her delight, I gave her my husband's work number and told her to surprise Daddy.

A few seconds later, she was back in the kitchen. "Did you talk to Daddy?" I asked.

"He couldn't come to the phone," she said, "because he's in the bushes."

Puzzled, I called the number. My husband's voice mail greeting solved the mystery. "Hi, this is Dave. I'm out in the plant right now … "

—Judie Gulley
Orion, Illinois

When my grandson asked me how old I was, I teasingly replied, "I'm not sure."

"Look in your underwear, Grandma," he advised. "Mine says I'm four."

—Elizabeth Sphar
Green Valley, Arizona

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