Last night I was kneeling in front of the TV watching Everybody Loves Raymond. What's up with that? I don't even like that show, and I usually pull in my computer chair to watch TV. I got pulled into the episode I guess but Phoenix was sitting on the floor right in front of me and sucking on the drawstring to my sweats. That's cool cause I'm absorbed in this show for some reason, and he's happy. Next thing I know Phoenix has fallen asleep sitting up...still sucking my drawstring. I replaced it with his pacifier and took him to his crib but it was the cutest thing ever.
Today I put all of our Christmas ornaments away. Needless to say Marce wouldn't stop playing with them and knocked about a dozen of them on the floor. The tree is up, with lights. The ornaments are gone and I'm happy with that. The reason I was such a hum bug about it is because I've had to put so many ornaments BACK on the tree this month. I am so done with it, AND Marcelus managed to shatter a glass ornament today. It was all over the carpet. He came to me in the other room and said he was hurt and gave me his finger. I thought he'd poked himself with a hook, for playing with the ornaments so much...but I think he cut himself with the glass. I put a band-aid on it and of course yelled at him. I have been really short with him lately. I've recognized this. I need to be a little better and not yell, but he could definitely up the good behavior too.
Last time in Family Night, we looked at pictures of Jesus and other churchy things. We showed Marcelus the famous Garden of Gestemene (sp. way off!) picture. He looked at it for a second and said "Jesus hurting." Shar and I looked at each other baffled. Christ is saying a prayer in the picture and doesn't look to be hurt. We were trying to teach Marce that Jesus wants him to pray. Marce is great during prayers at being reverent, but he has never really said his own prayers although we ask him if he wants to, and we also try and make him repeat us. We were trying to teach him that everybody prays and Jesus prays. He again said "Jesus hurting." It wasn't a question. Sharrid then skipped the prayer lesson and told Marce why Jesus was hurting. He told him a little about the Atonement, knowing Marce didn't really understand anything. We were still wondering how Marce could know that Jesus was hurting. I don't know if the veil is thin, but there was really no explanation for it. Marce was completely reverent and focused, calm and knowing. It astounding Sharrid and I. It was like Marce was teaching us instead of us teaching him.
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He's saving the most valiant for the last...It will be interesting to watch these little ones grow up.
Wow - that's awesome! Isn't it great when our kids open up with something that blows us out of the water? It just reaffirms my testimony of the plan of Salvation. Keep up the good work Lexie!
Wow! I think that sometimes we loose sight of how real the Light of Christ is. Marce may not be really aware why he said, "Jesus hurting," but some part of him is. That's so awesome.
Wow...that's neat. It really brings new meaning to the whole "out of the mouths of babes" thing.
Merry Christmas Lexie!!!!!!
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