Friday, April 2, 2010

"Are we going to heaven, Daddy?"

So it's been tough with the big guy these past few days... terrible twos, here we are. Instead of reading Elijah a book today before his nap, I just prayed as hard as I could b/c I was at the point of tears dealing with him! So to remind us all (including myself!) of how cute he can be...
Elijah: Are we going to heaven, Daddy? (saw a commercial for 700 club earlier that day, apparently)
Stephen explained how we get to heaven... A few minutes later...
Elijah: Are we going to heaven, Daddy?
Daddy: Do you know how we get to heaven?
Elijah: Yes.
Daddy: How do we get to heaven?
Elijah: By a donkey... we get to heaven by a donkey
Daddy: No. Do you know how we get to heaven?
Elijah: Yes.
Daddy: How do we get to heaven?

Elijah: By an airplane
Daddy: No. Do you know how we get to heaven?
Elijah: Yes.
Daddy: How do we get to heaven?

Elijah: A car.
Daddy: No. Do you know how we get to heaven?
Elijah: Yes.
Daddy: How do we get to heaven?

Elijah: Jesus. We get to heaven by Jesus
Daddy: Yes!!!! We get to heaven by trusting and believeing in Jesus! (and then a further explanation)

Then this morning, we were going over the Easter story, and I asked him where Jesus was carrying his cross...
Mommy: He was carrying his cross to Gol....
Elijah: ly. Golly. (with a smile)
Mommy: No... He was carrying his cross to Gol-ga-
Elijah: fa! (He can't say his th sounds great, so he meant Golgatha)
........
Mommy: Then what happened three days later?
Elijah: (singing in a high voice like David Phelps song) Three days later! Three days later! (with eyes squinting b/c he's singing so high!) Three days later!!!! He ROSE FROM THE DEAD!

Too funny! He can tell the Easter story so well... He says that after they "spanked" Jesus and nailed him to the cross, that "He was stuck". He can tell you what Jesus said when He was up on the cross, what happened to the sky when He died, who came to visit his tomb... future preacher maybe? =) We'll see!
This perked me up a bit before the boys awake, and I hope it did the same for you.
Stories and actual pictures of the boys to come soon.
ps - Luke's doing great! He's crawling EVERYWHERE (even in the fireplace - not lit). And his favorite (only) word is.... Dada!
Mommy: What does Luke say when he's hungry?
Elijah: Dada
Mommy:
What does Luke say when he's happy?
Elijah: Dada
Mommy: What does Luke say when he's sleepy?
Elijah: Dada....


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