- Luke and I were getting a lot of projects around the house done, and asked our lovely neighbor girl, Kayla (who Isabel adores) if she would like to play with Isabel for a couple of hours while we finished some things up. She was happy to, so when Isabel got up from her nap, I told her she was going to play with Kayla. We were getting her snack together and she said "Mommy, you go outside?" She was still waking up from her nap and sounded a little concerned that I wasn't coming with her, so I wanted to convince her that she was going to have so much more fun than me. I replied, "No, Isabel, Mommy and Daddy are working inside today. It's pretty boring. But you get to go have fun with Kayla outside!" She thought about this pensively, and said so sweetly, "Ohhh, that's OK Mommy, you can go outside next week!"
- This morning on the way to school, Isabel asked to listen to her songs. "Her songs" are a children's Bible song CD that I often play in the car for her. A few minutes after the CD began, she was cheerfully singing along with all the verses to "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands." I couldn't stop smiling!
- This evening, Luke and Isabel were at the dinner table starting dinner while I was nursing Josiah in the living room. Lately, Isabel has been talking during mealtime prayers, so tonight, Luke asked her if she wanted to help him pray for dinner. He had her repeat, "Thank you for this food," and "Thank you for this day." Then he said "Please bless this food" and she interrupted him with "to our body's use. Amen!" Luke always completes our mealtime prayers with "Bless this food to our body's use, and us to Your service, amen," (as his dad did at mealtime prayers when Luke was growing up) and we had no idea she had picked up on it until she finished the prayer perfectly for him! Luke informed her she definitely proved that she belongs to our family! We were both laughing pretty hard!
Abundant blessings,
Kristy
