(Picture from Finn's 1st Birthday Party -- just a family dinner on November 28th to mark our happy date. And our little Finn is now doing much, much better from his viral pneumonia. Back to his smiley self!)

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Recent Great Question from Max just as he is about to fall asleep at bedtime:

"Mommy, does God have a girlfriend?"

(answer -- "Well -- no.... He loves everyone equally." Max -- "What about his son Jesus?" "Well he loves his son so much that he shares him with everybody." Keep in mind this is a little hard for a mom who still struggles with her own beliefs! But I've decided to stick with the "traditional" church teachings with the kids rather than my belief that "God" is actually the "Earth Mother." He can figure out his own beliefs as he gets older!)

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Some of my other favorite "Max Bedtime Questions" over the last couple of years:

"Where's Emmett's daddy?" (Emmett has two mommies....)
"Mommy, why is Superman a man?"
"Why is a ball round?"

and other random moment queries:

-- As a three-year-old friend of Gus is telling us about apple picking, Max asks him, "Are you a FARMER?!?!"
-- "But Mommy HOW did daddy get his tadpole to your egg?"

And so many others I WISH I could remember. As Shannon will attest, Max could take the question "Why?" to further lengths than ANY kid on this planet! Especially when he was 3 and 4, he would literally follow-up your answer with ANOTHER question to the one hundredth degree, until you finally had to throw in the towel and say "Just because!"