Out of the mouths of babes...

The scene: Jaylen, Trevor and I are sitting in the living room, watching a cartoon.

Jaylen: "Did God make me?" (He likes to ask questions he knows the answer to)
Mommy: "Yes, God made you."
Jaylen: "And you too?"
Mommy: "Yes, and Trevor and Daddy too."
Jaylen: "Were we all in Jesus's tummy?"

Oh boy, we have a bit of explaining to do. With all the pregnant aunties, he knows babies start out in tummys, but God made us... so I guess he just put the two together!

Later on, we were reading in Jaylen's children's Bible and he asked about heaven, and if we could skadoo there (think Blue's Clues!)...

I just love to hear the things he comes up with!

Tip of the Day...

When your 1 or 2 year old starts making sounds like Flipper, don't laugh at or encourage it. He'll start doing it ALL THE TIME. And he'll start doing it louder. Including at the library, and when your library has high ceilings, it's especially loud.

Tip of the day...

Never put wallpaper up in your house. Really, just don't do it. Cause even if you like it, you probably won't live there forever... at some point someone will probably be taking it down. I've been working on our little hallway half bathroom this week, and it's been a real challenge! I've spent quite a few hours removing wallpaper, lots of it inch by inch... It's a lot of work - and I'm still not done getting it all down! I took some before-pictures. When we're done and I have after-pictures, I'll post them... :)

Child-like faith

Jaylen has been sitting in "big" church with us, and yesterday we had communion. We have it monthly, so he's seen it a few times. The first couple of times we only explained to him that the juice and crackers are not for him, only mommy and daddy. Yesterday, we kind of talked a bit about what we were doing. I explained that we were celebrating Jesus, and that the juice reminds us of Jesus' blood that takes away our sin, and the cracker reminds us of His body that died for us. I told him that because Jesus died, we can live and go to heaven. He asked me if I had to die too, and I told him Jesus died FOR me, to pay for my sin so I can go to heaven. With the cutest big eyes looking up at me, he said, "And I can go to heaven too?" We also talked about how Jesus didn't stay dead, but rose from the dead and went to heaven with God. It really struck me that the Gospel is so simple, that in those few statements I can explain it to my four year old. And yet, we will always have something to learn about God and His Word.

If Jesus came...

So I was looking through old bulletins and other miscellaneous things that accumulate in my Bible, and I came across this poem I had cut out. I don't even remember when I got it, or where it came from, but I love it's message.

If Jesus Came...

If Jesus came to your house to spend a day or two,
If He should show up unannounced, I wonder what you'd do?

Would you have to change your clothes before you let Him in,
Or hide some books and put the Bible where they'd been?

Would you be glad to have Him meet your very closest friends,
Or would you hope they stay away until His visit ends?

Would you be glad to have Him stay forever on and on,
Or would you sigh with great relief when He at last was gone?

It might be interesting to know the things that you would do,
If Jesus came in person to spend some time with you.

-Author unknown

Potty time...

Trevor has been showing a little interest in the potty lately, wanting to sit on it and try to go "pa-y." Well tonight after his bath he was running around naked, and I had just told Jaylen to go potty. So Trevor went in the other bathroom, and by the time I realized it, he had peed! Mostly on the floor in front of the toilet (he was trying to be like his big brother and stand up!) but some did end up in the potty. Unfortunately he was also standing in it, so I had to wash him up again, but I was pretty excited for him! We'll see if he keeps trying out the potty (I'm not going to push him), but at least it's a start!

First Day of Preschool

Today was Trevor's first day of preschool. He did so good! This morning when I brought him he just walked right in and starting playing, didn't have any problems with me leaving. When I picked him up the teachers said he did really good and went along with everything really well. The speech therapist also said he did very good in his time with her, repeating words and things like that. The boys both love the train table they have set up - in fact, Jaylen wanted to stay, too! I think I can handle this - two hours, one day a week. I'm hoping it will be really good for him. And it will be fun having one on one time with Jaylen too...