Saturday, October 6, 2012

Toddler Tales

A couple days ago Canon and I were playing on my bed.  He sat on the foot board facing me and held out his hands like he was holding a book.  He told me had had a story he was going to "read" me.  I can't remember it word for word anymore, but it went something like this:

   "Once 'pon time, there was a mommy. And there was a monster.  A big monster that scares mommy.  Then there's a ghost, the Holy Ghost.  And there was no more monster. Amen."


I also wanted to write down Canon's prayers.  Frankly, he says practically the exact same thing every time until he needs a little prompting to end his prayer, or to add something a little more substantial to the prayer...but this is how it goes:

    "Fah-ver, thank you for dis day. Thank you for dis food.  Please bless Mommy to feel better.  (sometimes needing a prompting to bless the food- which he says he already did) Please bless the food, and the food. (Usually we need to prompt him here to end, but sometimes he'll continue with: Please bless God, and the Holy Ghost.)  In the name, Jesus Christ, AMEN."

If we leave Canon to say the family prayer, and he decides to go on blessing more and more people, his favorite list is the following...usually in this order too:  Tiffany, and Cameron and Megan, and Teddy, and Lily, and Brian...sometimes followed by Grandma and Grandpa.  Granted, we do help him when he gets stuck and can't really think of much else to say.  Hopefully he'll learn soon that there are other things that we can pray for...but at least he knows that we can pray for others when we are thinking about them.  I almost wish that he would be happier to listen to us praying instead of always wanting to be the one to do it himself.   Almost!  :)

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