Alex is in repeater mode. He repeats EVERYTHING! You can just be holding a normal conversation, and he'll pick out whatever he wants, and just start repeating whatever it is. Yes, we certainly do need to watch what we say around him!
Well, on our trip back to the midwest, we have this fabulous friend, Dori, that we feel like we've known forever! She's awesome and amazing! She does this thing with her family that is simple, and easy! We've always been told to read our scriptures every day, and as a family we do alright, but individually it can be hard to find time. So, she gave us an idea of what they do. They take a min. 2, max 10 minutes after dinner and read whatever they want that's spiritually related... books/magazines/scriptures... and after time's up, they discuss what they learn for 5 minutes total. Quick, easy, harmless.
Well, 2 nights ago, Todd announced he was leaving the table after dinner to go read scriptures, we were all welcome to join him when we were done eating... 1 hour later, James was still eating. And he really was eating too! He ate so much that night that he later complained of a stomach ache! Geesh, James, maybe it was all the food you ate!!! Then our home teachers came over.... yeah... Strike 1...
Last night we tried again after dinner, and it was awesome! James read this Bible reader with pictures to Glenn, I read a magazine with lots of pictures to Alex, and Todd read from the Book of Mormon. After 10 minutes, we went around and talked about what we learned. James and Glenn went first, Alex of course repeated everything I had said that I had learned :-), and then it was Todd's turn.
To preceed the story, Alex has been into Elmo lately! His grandparents gave him a tickle me Elmo thing for Christmas, and while he's been potty training, his favorite book to read is about Elmo.... anyway, back to the story...
Todd started out... "I read about Alma" (he's a prophet from the Book of Mormon)... Alex belts out "Bout Elmo!" He was QUITE excited that Papa had learned about Elmo! It was adorable!
That's all for today! Take care everyone, and I'll include a picture for fun, but it's nothing important! It's how we rode around as a family on our trip.
1 comment:
Your back, I was wondering. Love the tandems. We make a train and I take Teagan on the trail-a-bike and Colby in the trailer. Mom's belly was too big as of late. So the road trip worked huh. I've been contemplating one to Maryland next Dec. and not sure which is better. I hadn't planned a whole month though, might be necessary. Looking forward to your updates.
Dave
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