My little cousins, Chris and Debora, came over today for New Years. Before the family began to eat the traditional korean New Year's meal of mee-yuk-guk, my mom asked Chris (aged 5) to pray for the meal.

The prayer started off nicely as he gave thanks for the food, family, friends, and so on. I was impressed at his improved grammar and new vocabulary skills. Then he started praying about trees. All kinds of trees, including big trees, small trees, palm trees, coconut trees and pineapple trees. Especially the pineapple trees. He mentioned them four times during the span of his prayer.

He continued on, praying for flowers, fruits, buildings, computers, and a whole buncha other stuff that I can't remember. He referred to his beloved pineapple trees one last time and finally said, "Amen." He had a big grin on his face afterwards, probably because he felt really proud of himself.

Hahah, what a funny little guy. Kids really do say the darndest things.


Happy New Years everybody. Hello 2004!