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 you 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."

 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 but send us some e-mail!

 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!!!!!"