Horsies, Chairs, and Rocky Top!

I don't have picture . . . I'm being too lazy to walk down and get my camera and upload my pictures and then wait two days for one picture to upload . . . I have to go to the church, it's faster! Anyways, back to the Title! We try to do devos with Abby every night, understanding of course there are days when you run helter skelter and because of that we dont' get home until 11 at night . . . thankfully that doesn't happen that often anymore! But a couple of nights ago we were doing devos. We get this little paper from her Sunday School and a different one on Wednesday evening. It's a take home paper that folds out and you reread the story with your child. There are extras they can do so we work on the paper each evening. It could be as simple as reading the Bible story from the Bible and talking about the picture or reading word for word what the paper says. It's a wonderful little tool. It's from the Joyful Life cirruculum published by Abeka. Now, anytime a 2 year old can repeat the story of Elijah and the woman and being fed by birds and praying for fire and rain, it's going to make me a believer. Wednesday's bible verse is Dueteronomy 7:9 "The Lord thy God, He is God." We have been working on this verse for the past month with her and she can say it word for word. "Lord" and "thy" come out with her tongue stuck way out but it's so cute. . . Well, we've also been working on her learning the books of the Bible. No we don't have a genius. She does not understand what she's saying but a 2 year old's ability to memorize astounds me and I think it's downright fun to hear a 2 year old saying "Genesis, Exidis, Le-vet-ti-cous, Nummers, and Deuteronomy." She is up to Ruth. Give her time she doesn't technically have to know this stuff until at least middle school! So we were working with her saying it over and over and having her repeat it and one time out of the blue she said the first four and then she looked at us with that oh-so-cute-grin, cocked her head and said, "No, deuterono-YOU!" She thought she was quite clever and it caused us to rethink how the word sounds to a little one! I don't know what she thinks deuterono does to a person but one day maybe she'll tell me. Now we can't get her to say it the right way. So back to devos a few nights ago. We were going over her verse and we got down to the reference and we said "Dueteronmy 7:9" and she said, "Dueterono-Dad, Dueterono-Mom, dueterono-Abby, Dueterono-brudder, Dueterono-EVERYBODY!" She was cracking herself up and acting so cute. I was laughing very hard. It could have been it was close to bedtime but right now during the day it still makes me smile. Then we told her it was time to pray and in sunday school we've been going over a pattern for prayer and how you thank God for things and then you ask him to pray and close in Jesus' name. She's getting the thanking and the asking part mixed up. So we ask her who do you want to pray for and usually it's Mamaw, Papaw, Grandma, Grandpa, Uncle Dannel, Uncle David, Ben, Lizzie, Momma, Daddy, Brudder, etc. This night it was Horsies Chair, and Rocky Top. We tried to explain you thank God for those things but you don't ask help for those things. Finally after thorough explaination, we thought we were on the same path we started to pray and we let her pray sometimes, repeating after us. Well, tonight she went right on ahead. Joshua said Dear God and before he could continue she jumped in with "Dear God, please help horsies, and chairs, and Rocky Top, In Jesus' name, Amen!" We were laughing so hard, that was the end of praying and being spiritual, but I think that's okay (ONCE IN AWHILE) We need to have fun and smile and make good memories with God! well, now that you've been spiritualized for the day . . . may you have a blessed and full day!