Benson, though he still speaks mostly in grunts, understands everything I say to him. And, he always obeys...except when he is instructed to eat. He never does that. But, when asked to put his shoes and coat away, or share with his brother, or park his cars for the night, he happily obeys.
Today was McKay's first day in Primary. Since I am the Primary President, I've been talking up how much fun he'd have in Primary and how excited I am to finally have him there with me.
He did really well. He sat nicely in his chair (though he insisted I sit next to him). He tried hard to sing the new song we learned, though he had absolutely no idea how it went. He also helped with the Sharing Time lesson. However, when it came time to go to class with his teacher, he was not excited. He screamed, in fact. So, he and I sat outside his classroom for a while, discussing the importance of attending class, how much fun it would be, that his friends missed him, etc. Finally I said, "Well, I'm going into your class, so you can come too or you can sit in the hall by yourself." He chose to come.
Once inside class, I sat down next to him for about a minute after which he looked at me, waved, and said, "See you later, Mom". That was my cue.
In Primary this year, we are encouraging all the children to memorize the 13 Articles of Faith. Whenever they memorize one and pass it off to their teacher, they get a treat.
McKay has been working on the 1st Article of Faith all week. When class ended today he repeated the whole thing to his teacher! We got him started with "We" and he finished the whole thing by himself. I was so proud, and amazed.
When we were first working on our plan to encourage memorizing the Articles of Faith, we were only going to do it with the Sr. Primary, assuming the Jr. wouldn't really be able to do it. Wow, McKay sure proved me wrong.
We have all had stuffy noses around our house lately. Everyone is pretty much over it but mine is really hanging on. So, the past few days I've had a humidifier going in my room. After naptime today I noticed that McKay had a humidifier in his room too. I assumed BJ had set it up for him, since it was plugged in and sitting next to his bed.
Tonight as we were putting the kids to bed, BJ asked if I still wanted McKay's humidifier on. I said, "I thought you got it out for him" to which he replied he had thought I had gotten it out. We both looked at McKay and I asked if McKay had gotten it out. He said, "Yes, I got it out of my closet. My nose was stuffy so I needed a re-midifier."
Little smartie-pants.
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Those re-midifiers really come in handy in the winter! :)
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