Tannerisms
Bye
This week Jim was leaving and taking Tanner to the video store with him. Anxious to get out of the house, he glances back at me with a big smile and say’s “Bye Mommy! Good to see ya!” LOL.
Lost
Tanner has an intersting way of defining “lost”. When I forget to put my seatbelt on he say’s “Mommy you lost your seatbelt“. This week I got out of the car and put something in the laundry room before removing Ty from the car seat (he was safe in the garage – not in a parked car in the driveway – I am paranoid about that). Tanner said “Mommy! You lost Ty!” 🙂
Sign Language
Not sure if I mentioned this before but my mom used to teach sign language and she would sign services occasionally for the hearing impaired. As a result, she taught me quite a bit when I was young (I only remember a little now). I haven’t been real devoted to baby sign with Ty but I have been trying harder lately. Tanner is loving helping with this and loves to sign the word “NO”! He gets plenty of use out of THAT!
Dreaming
Tanner talks in his sleep. He rarely makes a bit of sense about it. Sidetrack – Brooke also talks in her sleep and she is hysterical. Did I ever mention that she woke up Daniel one night speaking in Old English in her dream because she had been reading an old english book before bed? THAT is sleep talk! I so wish he would have recorded her! That is the funniest!
Anyhow, this week Tanner wakes up in his sleep and say’s “Don’t want do that! Paaaaapppppaaaaa!!” The next morning I told him what he said and asked him what he was dreaming about. I should have guessed at his answer. He told me that he wanted to stay at Papa’s house and didn’t want to go home! 🙂 LOL. Remember, he spent last week camping with Papa and Sweetie for several days and had the time of his life so it figures that he would have dreamed about a return trip. In fact, when I told him to get ready to go with me to Sweeties house for a minute this weekend, he told me he was packing his tooth brush! Sheeeeshhhh! Grandparents don’t play fair!
Tanner’s Story
Today I shared a much more detailed version of Tanner’s story than I usually do. He seemed to be interested in the conversation so I decided it was as good a time as any. Tanner’s story is rather complex. I could have stuck to the simpler truths but that really boxes in the story – his story isn’t simple. The event that prempted this was the hatching of Tanner’s triops this morning (refer to the triops posting if you don’t know what I am talking about). Tanner stared at the newly hatched little creatures and asked me where their parents were. This led into a conversation about embryo adoption and how Tanner is the parent of the triops now. As this was an easy lead in to his personal story, with a deep breath and a prayer I just dived in. We discussed all the participants in the story, the babies we lost, why he was placed for adoption, how God got involved with both families and spoke to all of our hearts…the whole 9 yards. At the end of my tale he looks at me and say’s “Mommy. That is a lot of parents!” LOL! I told him that God used a lot of people in his life to bring about “Tanner’s story”. He was satisfied with that answer and then asked me with a smile to tell it again.
7 responses to “Tanner’s Story”
You make my heart smile.
Much Love,
Jennifer
oh, Doni…have you ever heard the Psalty praise tapes for kids? They were my favorite as a child and still are wonderful to listen to even now as an adult. Send me an e-mail if you want more information.
Another Psalty lover! YES YES YES…I loved him as a kid too:). No, I don’t have any of his music anymore because all my copies were 8 track!!! LOL.
“Be patient…be patient…don’t be in such a hurry. Remember…remember…that God is patient too. Something something something….others had to wait for you”. That tune still runs through my head but I forget the words:)
…and think of all the times when others had to wait for you!
OH SUCH MEMORIES!
Hey, while we’re at it… did anyone ever have a little tiny kids record with a song “Myrtle McWyrtle the Turtle, crawled all around in a circle….” I remember being a little tiny girl and loving that song.
Or, how about the “Down by the Creek Bank” musical? I wanted to sing “Germs” soooo bad but my friend Susie got the part at our church. My cousin STILL remembers me singing this all the time and recently emailed the words to me! Ha ha!
LOL! I was in Down By the Creek Bank too! I can’t remember which song I sang. I’ll have to ask my mom. I DO remember though that David was teeny tiny and he stayed on the stage singing almost eating the microphone after all the other kids walkded down. An adult had to go up and physically remove him. He is such a ham:). (Germs rings a bell – I wonder if I sang that?)
I LOVED Down by the Creekbank! We used to sing from that book every Sunday morning during singing time before Sunday school.
Doni, my favorite Psalty is the one where they are camping. It has Cares Chorus and “We’re going camping now we’re on our way….” I have it somewhere. I’ll have to look for it. Have you tried to find Psalty on Amazon? I’ll look around on the web and see what I can find. I’d love for my boys to listen to it. Now we have Sandy Patty’s Friendship Company CD that we sing along to. It’s great also.
Jennifer:) – Here it is http://www.psalty.com/. Another favorite of mine is Anne Murray’s Hippo in the Tub! That album has the cutest songs.
Heidi – Talked to my mom about Germs and neither of us remember if I sang it but her first comment was “Oh you LOVED that song”. LOL. Funny – there is one thing that we never talked about in 16 years:)
we MUST teach our boys “germs” – don’t you think?
by the way – seth saw some pics of our arizona visit and saw pics from your house and said, “tanner! baby ty!” he KNOWS who his buddies are! wahoo! 😉