I don't have much time to write tonight, but I this is my first feeble attempt to start writing on this blog each Sunday--big goal, I know. Y'all will have to hold me to it.
I started realizing that if we don't write down the little "aha" moments that happen each week w/ our kids, we'll forget them all, so here goes.
This week we started reading the children's Book of Mormon with Lydia. It has all the stories from the Book of Mormon in comic book style w/ 6 pictures per page and little blurbs below each one.
She loves it.
She sits bolt upright the whole time, her eyes darting from picture to picture, riveted to what I have to say. Each night when I pick up the book and flip through the pages to find the spot where we left off she is so excited that she says, "talk, Daddy, talk!" I can't get to the spot fast enough!
Every time there is a conflict between people in the Book of Mormon she points and says, "they're mean." We just taught her in Family Home Evening (FHE) about obedience and disobedience and how one makes us happy and one makes us sad and she really keys into that when we read the Book of Mormon stories to her.
We told her that they are "Lydia's scriptures" (she pronounces it "scrictures"). She really likes owning a set of scriptures like her parents do.
So, the other night we were reading about Lehi's vision of the tree of life and she learned that eating the fruit of the tree of life makes us happy. That night she said the family prayer (also something we've been working on with her) and she said something along the lines of, "thankful for eating the fruit and we be happy..." I was so PROUD of her!
She never ceases to amaze me.
Also, one time we went on a walk and she saw one of those green cable boxes sticking out of the ground and this one was cracked near the bottom and she said, "Look, Heavenly Father broke it."
To which I replied, "Uh, maybe...or maybe somebody else did."
Then she said, "It's part of Heavenly Father's plan."
So, I have no idea where that dialogue came from, but I thought it was really cute.
2 comments:
It's so great that you are writing these things down. One day...we will forget these things and there will be no one to tell them, unless you write it down! Good for you!
She is too cute and I love that she is learning so much! what a fun age!!!
What a sweetheart. I'm always impressed with how much little children can retain! Good job, Mommy and Daddy!
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