MY FOOTSTEPS?
An acquaintance of mine who is a physician told  this
story about her then-four-year-old daughter.  On the
way to preschool, the doctor had left her stethoscope
on the car  seat, and her little girl picked it up and
began playing with  it.  Be still, my heart, thought my
friend, my daughter wants to  follow in my footsteps!
Then the child spoke into the  instrument: "Welcome
to McDonald's. May I take your order?"


                     A WISE LITTLE GIRL
A certain little girl, when asked her name,  would
reply, "I'm Mr.. Sugarbrown's daughter."   Her mother
told her this was wrong, she must say, "I'm Jane
Sugarbrown." The Vicar spoke to her in Sunday
School, and said, "Aren't you Mr.. Sugarbrown's
daughter?"  She replied,  "I thought I was, but mother
says I'm not."


                      TOO ROUGH
A little girl asked her mother, "Can I go outside
and play with the boys?"
Her mother replied, "No, you can't  play with the
boys, they're too rough."
The little girl  thought about it for a few moments
and asked, "If I can
find a smooth one, can I play with him?"


                      THUMB SUCKING
A boy had reached four without giving up the habit
of sucking his thumb, though his mother had tried
everything from  bribery to reasoning to painting it
with lemon juice to  discourage the habit.  Finally
she tried threats, warning  her son that, "If you
don't stop sucking your thumb, your  stomach is
going to blow up like a balloon."  Later that  day,
walking in the park, mother and son saw a pregnant
woman  sitting on a bench. The four-year-old
considered her gravely for a minute, then spoke
to her saying, "Uh-oh ... I know what *you've*  been
doing."


                      THE LORD'S PRAYER
A mother was teaching her 3-year-old the  Lord's
prayer. For several evenings at bedtime she repeated
it  after her mother.  One night she said she was ready
to  solo.  The mother listened with pride as she
carefully  enunciated each word, right up to the end of
the prayer.
"Lead us not into temptation," she prayed, "but deliver
us some e-mail, Amen."


                     SO KEEP THE SINGING DOWN, OK?
A Sunday school teacher asked her little  children,
as they were on the way to church service,  "And why is
it necessary to be quiet in church? "One  bright little girl
replied, "Because people are  sleeping."



                     THE PRESSED LEAF
A little boy opened the big and old family  Bible
with fascination, he looked at the old pages as he turned
them. Then something fell out of the Bible and he picked
up and  looked at it closely.  It was an old leaf from a tree
that  has been pressed in between pages.  "Momma, look
what I found," the boy called out. "What have you got
there,  dear?" his mother asked. With astonishment in the
young boy's voice  he answered:
It's Adam's  suit!!!!!"