Chase: Mom, where does Jesus live?
Me: Where do you think he lives?
Chase: Um, I think he lives in the clouds.
Me: Yeah you are probably right.
Chase: Yeah Mom! But except I have been to the clouds and I didn't see Jesus there!
Me: When were you in the clouds?
Chase: When we went to see Grandma and Papa Ray! (meaning the airplane)
During story time at the library while the cute librarian lady was talking about a book called Round as a pancake:
Chase: Guess what! My daddy makes the best pancakes in the whole world! He does!
(Other adults in the room look at him with smiles of cuteness)
Librarian: He does! And what shape are they? Are they squares?
Chase: Oh! My Nana has a waffle maker that makes square waffles! Square waffles! Can you even believe that!
(And then I told Chase that story time is about listening to the book, not telling the 20 other kids in the room about breakfast at our house)
One morning Chase crawled into bed with me and Ben and was feeling chatty, so we were quietly talking about a bunch of things. It had been a rough night with the kids- nightmares and bedwetting and just general lack of sleep for their parents.
Me (to Ben): How'd you sleep honey?
Chase: Oh I just slept really good!
Me: That's good to hear Chase, but I was talking to your dad.
Chase: Oh. Mom, when can I be "honey"?
Comes inside crying:
Chase: MOM! Dad said I lost my screen time!
Me: Why did he say that? What did you do?
Chase: I was just playing and doing something and dad said he told me to stop a lot of times and that I wasn't listening and then he said that I lost my screen time!
Me: Well did you listen to him?
Chase: (with an expression of incredulousness and determination) NO!
He's been pulling some primary shenanigans lately. He was asked spur of the moment to give the scripture a few weeks ago. My mom is in the primary presidency, so she came and got me so I could watch. Once he finished the scripture and nice lady helping him tried to tell him to sit down and instead he insisted "I'm not done!" and then started singing a song he made up about a firetruck.
A few weeks later he was giving the prayer. He told my mom he was going to say the prayer and sing his firetruck song again.
Nana: No Chase, just give the prayer, otherwise you can't say that prayer at all.
Chase: Okay Nana, but it's going to be a long one!
Then after the (long) prayer she prompted him to go sit down and he said, "But I need to do my dance!"
Then a lady asked them all if they'd completed their challenge of being kind that month. Chase raised his hand and then loudly shared with everyone, "I wasn't kind. I lost my screen time."
Me: Where do you think he lives?
Chase: Um, I think he lives in the clouds.
Me: Yeah you are probably right.
Chase: Yeah Mom! But except I have been to the clouds and I didn't see Jesus there!
Me: When were you in the clouds?
Chase: When we went to see Grandma and Papa Ray! (meaning the airplane)
During story time at the library while the cute librarian lady was talking about a book called Round as a pancake:
Chase: Guess what! My daddy makes the best pancakes in the whole world! He does!
(Other adults in the room look at him with smiles of cuteness)
Librarian: He does! And what shape are they? Are they squares?
Chase: Oh! My Nana has a waffle maker that makes square waffles! Square waffles! Can you even believe that!
(And then I told Chase that story time is about listening to the book, not telling the 20 other kids in the room about breakfast at our house)
One morning Chase crawled into bed with me and Ben and was feeling chatty, so we were quietly talking about a bunch of things. It had been a rough night with the kids- nightmares and bedwetting and just general lack of sleep for their parents.
Me (to Ben): How'd you sleep honey?
Chase: Oh I just slept really good!
Me: That's good to hear Chase, but I was talking to your dad.
Chase: Oh. Mom, when can I be "honey"?
Comes inside crying:
Chase: MOM! Dad said I lost my screen time!
Me: Why did he say that? What did you do?
Chase: I was just playing and doing something and dad said he told me to stop a lot of times and that I wasn't listening and then he said that I lost my screen time!
Me: Well did you listen to him?
Chase: (with an expression of incredulousness and determination) NO!
He's been pulling some primary shenanigans lately. He was asked spur of the moment to give the scripture a few weeks ago. My mom is in the primary presidency, so she came and got me so I could watch. Once he finished the scripture and nice lady helping him tried to tell him to sit down and instead he insisted "I'm not done!" and then started singing a song he made up about a firetruck.
A few weeks later he was giving the prayer. He told my mom he was going to say the prayer and sing his firetruck song again.
Nana: No Chase, just give the prayer, otherwise you can't say that prayer at all.
Chase: Okay Nana, but it's going to be a long one!
Then after the (long) prayer she prompted him to go sit down and he said, "But I need to do my dance!"
Then a lady asked them all if they'd completed their challenge of being kind that month. Chase raised his hand and then loudly shared with everyone, "I wasn't kind. I lost my screen time."
I would be more tolerant of long prayers (especially at the end of sacrament meeting) if the person did a dance right afterwards...
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