With boys one just never gets a moment peace (…I think girls are actually louder though – it is the high pitch thing). My boys are wrestling and annoying each other 24×7. Never a dull moment. I can hear Tanner shouting to Ty to “put that away” at this very moment. Better go check.<\/p>\n
He was ripping a magazine. Big surprise.<\/p>\n
Anyhow…….<\/p>\n
I have spent the last little bit trying to read books to the boys. They were fighting over who got to turn the pages. Singing settles a lot of issues in our house so Tanner starting asking me to sing songs for every picture. I have a huge repertoire of kids and praise songs in this little head so I actually only had to make a couple up because I could think of relating song themes to most of the pictures he chose (lucky for me…making up songs on the fly may be a task above my level of functioning right now). Ty was distracted by the music so he just sat and clapped. (Hold up – Ty is crying – going to check again – he was taking Tanner’s hippo – sheeeeeshh).<\/p>\n
Tanner is coming around on the music stuff. His favorite song this week has been “He’s Got the Whole World”. So precious.<\/p>\n
On Prayer<\/strong><\/p>\n Tanner has been wanting to pray himself lately but he primarily volunteers to do this before eating. As a result, he is associating prayer to food. The other day, Tanner was being unkind to his brother so we had a talk about being accountable when we don’t obey parents and God. Tanner and I decided to pray together and Tanner was supposed to tell the Lord he was sorry for disobeying. He knew he was supposed to be apologizing for something (kids have short termers) but praying usually is associated to food (in his mind) so this was his prayer “God I am sorry I didn’t eat”. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n I had to remind him what the trespass was and we got that all straightened out LOL.<\/p>\n He also has been warming my heart each time I hear this prayer “God – thank you for making me”. The sweetest thing about that is that I never told Tanner he should say that – it was totally on his own. When I pray with Tanner I always thank God for giving Tanner to me as such an incredible gift. I guess Tanner thinks he should start thanking the Lord for his precious life too – and I agree – he should – we all should. For we are all precious in HIS sight.<\/p>\n Who said?<\/strong><\/p>\n Kids are so comical with the way they mentally process through things. My friend Laura came over to visit me with her two kids last week. Her youngest, Joshua was in the NICU with Ty. (Ty also got to see his NICU buddy Landen last week ). Anyhow, I had to go to the chiropractor so Laura volunteered to watch the boys while I was gone. When I got back Tanner met me in the hall and said “Who said I could stand on the chairs?”<\/em><\/p>\n When questions like this are asked of parents, one generally hesitates with a quizzical look before answering. Laura helped me out with this when she explained that Tanner had been standing on a chair in my absence and like any good mother she said “Tanner does your mommy let you stand on chairs?” <\/em>His answer was “Yes”<\/em> (apparently we are going to have to work on telling the truth \ud83d\ude42 ). Laura then said “I don’t think anyone let’s you stand on chairs.”<\/em><\/p>\n Apparently, the rationale of a 4 year old is that if Laura said that I don’t let him stand on chairs yet he is still doing it than someone else must have said that he could – therefore he wanted me to tell him who that mystery person was when I got home. I have a feeling that the “nobody” imaginary friend is going to get a lot of attention in my near future.<\/p>\n Computers<\/strong><\/p>\n In the past Tanner was an XBox fanatic. Due to the sheer amount of time that would absorb him, Jim and I derailed the Xbox future by putting huge limits on time spent on that activity. One fine day last week though I taught Tanner how to use my computer mouse. I opened up www.playhousedisney.com, www.pbskids.com, and the fisher price site and away he went. He is so good at it that he can navigate through everything without any assistance. Pretty impressive when he can’t read. I have no idea how he manages so well. My lap top has been effectively shanghaied now though. Going to have to start looking into guardian programs for the internet. I am too afraid that my little ones will inadvertently stumble onto something so I hope I find really great protective boundary blockers. Open to suggestions on this one.<\/p>\n Fuss-rae<\/strong><\/p>\n This is Tanner’s new word. Yesterday he was putting a puzzle together and said “Mommy! This puzzle is so fuss-rae!” \ud83d\ude42 (Frustrating). Gotta love it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With boys one just never gets a moment peace (…I think girls are actually louder though – it is the high pitch thing). 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