A Word about Isaac

Isaac has had quite a few highlight this last week.
1) A few days ago while he was sick, Dave sat down to play Mario on the Wii.  Isaac had been watching for a few minutes.  Then he walked up to Dave and put his hand on Dave's arm.  Dave didn't look up from his game for even a second.  Then Isaac let out a huge sigh.  Dave laughed and said, "What is it, Buddy?"  Isaac said, "Oh, nuffing!  That's just the sound of my heart breaking!"  Dave, completely caught off guard, said, "Do you want to play with me?"  Isaac's face lit up and he said, "Yep!"  Where in the world did he hear THAT PHRASE?  You got me!

2) Yesterday Isaac woke up around 6:30.  I had been up all night long with Brianna and had only been asleep for about three hours, so I sent Dave in on his way out the door to tell Isaac to get back in his bed and go back to sleep.  A few hours later, I got up.  I opened Isaac's door to him standing there naked, playing with his toys.  I asked why he was naked, and he said his diaper was wet so he took it off and he didn't have any underwear in there to put on.  (Note to self -- always leave him with underwear in his room.)  Anyway, we got him dressed and he gave me a HUGE hug and then got really serious and said, "Mommy - I didn't go back to sleep!  I made a bad choice!"  I said uh-huh and next time go to sleep so you can start to get better faster.  Then his face lit up and he said, "Mommy!  You didn't spank me!  You made a GOOD choice!"

3) This morning - repeat of yesterday, still up late with Bria, this time Abby was awake at the crack of dawn and I still needed at least four hours of sleep before I faced a day with them.  When I woke up, we got up, we made muffins together, we ate breakfast together, we cleaned up their rooms, we sang Articles of Faith, and we just had a pretty fantastic morning!  Runny noses and all. ;-D  While we were finishing cleaning, I asked Isaac to pick up all of his clothes that he had thrown on the floor and put them in his drawer.  He got really serious and said, "Mom - I cut my pants with the dangerous!"  I said, "What dangerous?  What?  Isaac, show me!" He went into his closet, up a few levels from where I thought he could reach, and got down my sewing box and showed me my scissors.  I flipped!  Asked him why he did that, asked him to show me where he cut his brand new pants, and then asked him what I should do about that because it was a really bad choice!  He looked at me and thought for a minute, and then he said, "But Mommy, I didn't cut my SHIRT!  I made a GOOD choice!"  Way to look on the bright side, Buddy! And brighten an upset heart!


4) Today he was eating his hot dog for lunch.  Then out of nowhere he got up and came over to me and said, "Mommy, I sure do love you!"  I said I love him, too.  Then he said, "May I please have a hug and a kiss?"  I gave him one.  Then he said, "I want a kiss from you!" (He meant I want to give YOU a kiss.)  So I put my cheek out and waited for him to blow raspberries on it (Isaac's token goodnight kiss on the cheek -- not sure where he got that either, but we laugh together every time he does it!).  But this time he just gave me a sweet kiss on the cheek and a huge smile!

He amazes me all the time with his sweetness, wisdom and creativity.  He and Abby are night and day!  NIGHT AND DAY!  And I cannot imagine life without the complimentary contrasts.

First Solo, First Talk

We have set a goal to read the Book of Mormon as a family this year and learn the Articles of Faith.  The kids have done AMAZINGLY with the Articles of Faith.  I decided with my two, the best way to teach them would be through the songs.  Since we sing a song every night with family prayer, stories, and scriptures, it fit in perfectly!  They learned the first one in two weeks.  Then the second.  But in that time, we had a lot of sickness, so today was their first Sunday at church to pass off their Articles of Faith. 

Abby got up and stood there for a second, and then I moved to the front row and said, "Just sing it so you don't forget - "We Be-" and she took off!  She sang the first article of faith, everyone laughed at how cute it was, and . . . WOW!  I realized that Abby sang her first solo.  She was so confident and so proud and did so well.  It really almost made me cry.

Then Isaac got up to do his first article of faith.  At that moment, they were trying to wind things down and kind of hurrying through everything.  So I think he could feel that.  At the same time, he asks every week to stand up and talk at the microphone like the other kids.  SO when he finally GOT to get up to the microphone -- he laughed and smiled and then I told him the same as Abby.  But he tried to say it instead.  Probably because all the other kids did.  "We believe in God the Eternal Fader and Jesus Christ and I love my mom and dad and . . ." By then everyone was laughing, and so was Isaac, and the Primary President told him to sit down that he could try again next week. 

Hopefully there's more time this week and they can do the first and second -- and then I'll feel better about moving onto the third and not having so many "song choices" that start with "We Believe" running through their little heads. 

I couldn't be more proud of my kids!