As of late Colt has become devoutly religious. Every time we eat a meal, he has to be the one to say prayer. The same prayer. Blaine and I can recite it verbatim, which isn't saying much since it clocks in under 10 seconds. Short and sweet. It's a nice one--I'll give him that.
In fact, when we dined at a friend's house last week and it came time to bless the food Colt spouted the prayer off without a 'go-for-go' launch while I looked on in sheer horror at the faces around the table that were trying not to erupt into laughter. Ay, yi, yi.
Blaine is the stronger of us, and will even attempt to interject a simple, "say bless the food" or "thank thee" only to be brutally rebuffed with a returned, "This is my prayer!" from the munchkin.
I guess the glass half full tenant would have me thankful he's praying at all, grateful for his determination to commune regardless of distraction, optimistic at his improved spiritual vernacular. So what if he's a broken record.
Maybe my attention would be better spent figuring out this potty training bit. That's right--big F on the parental report card still. I've decided 18 is my cut off point. He will leave my home bladder responsible. I know--I set the bar high. Go team Me!
4 comments:
Oh man, gotta love those kid prayers. They're my favorite! And as far as potty training goes, 18 is the perfect age ;-)
Miles loves to pray too! He has to pray over every second helping and more. Breakfast, snack, lunch, snack, and dinner are all blessed. Not to mention family prayer! It's so cute!
Good luck with the potty training. You poor thing. You know as soon as you don't care about it, he'll want to potty train and it will only take a day.
All my kids go through/are going through that phrase (minus Cassidy). I can practically guess what each kid is going to say and usually in what order although they occasionally add in a few snippets - but mostly the same. Chelsea always starts with bless the missionaries no matter if it's for a meal or bedtime or whatever. Be happy he wants to say it. Mia didn't want to until she was almost 5 and even now still wants help half the time.
Good luck with the potty training thing. Glad it's not me. My sis went through a similar frustration with her first.
you're killin' me! any prayer is a good one, they'll get better with age and for that matter, so will the potty issues. it's summer, let him run around naked! pee in the yard but not on friends:) i'm working on that with my 3rd this summer too!
yeah for us and potty training...
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