baby fish and spiritual kids

Have I posted about our baby fish... I think I have. They continue to make me happy. I think the mom is still pregnant. But I'm super happy that there are 5 baby fish!!! I thought I saw a few more hiding under the rocks...and sure enough, there were. They are all big enough now that they swim about freely (well, there's one tiny one who still hides occasionally). It is too cute! I think these are the 2 bigger babies.

I failed to mention in the last post the fun date night that Mario and I had on Saturday. So, yes, we met 8 years ago on the March for Life. And we considered the Sunday before the March our first date since I hung out with Mario and a few of his friends. He decided to boldly pay for everyone's dinner. Well, of course I had a camera with me to take pictures of our trip to DC. Sadly, I lost 1 roll of film... I still remember one cold group shot that Mario, his friends and I took in the snow in Georgetown. We also failed to remember the name of the restaurant where we ate. So, last week, I did a bit of internet hunting, and in a short time came upon a restaurant with a logo that was quite familiar. I went ahead and made reservations there and kept the evening a surprise for Mario. Mario is terrible at trying to be surprised and kept asking for me to spill the secret (which I did not). He walked in and didn't really get it, so I thought I had failed. But as the dinner wore on, we realized we both remembered different familiar things about the restaurant, enough that it might actually be the place. I joked that too bad he still didn't have the same credit card he used. Sunday, Mario did an even shorter investigation of his Quicken accounts and found the credit card statement for that evening. We did in fact, dine at J Paul's in Georgetown back in January 2000. After that we visited the Tombs and the Dubliner (both of which I remembered without investigation). It was fun to retrace our first date night steps...even when we didn't really know we were on a date.

In another random topic... I think kids really are naturally spiritual. I think I may have commented on some of the faithful things MJ has done over his short life. I wasn't aware that it could start before the age of 1. So, maybe this was just coincidence. But today when we were eating dinner, we remembered that we forgot to say grace. So we all put down our utensils, and then Joey took his messy hands off his tray and folded them together, looked up at us and sat quietly. We prayed, and when we finished, he went back to chowing down. Coincidence???
We also say prayers before we go to bed, and sometimes MJ insists he should say them on his own...which I must, must, record before I forget. At the end of the Our Father, he says something like "deliver us our weevles". Well, we also pray for friends and family, and MJ chimed right in with several tonight (I'll only mention a few). He prayed for Daddy who is traveling, Mommy so she could be patient, and MJ so he wouldn't be naughty (are these things I pray for often???)