Little Moments

I decided today that despite the fact that the pile of laundry in my room will never end and the other things on my "To Do List" will not go away on their own, I'm going to stop and blog a few of the precious moments I've had with Titus lately. Kids really do say the greatest things I know that I'll forget so many of the great little moments so it is worth it to stop and document what I can! (Also...I started this post in December and just finished it today...oh well!!)


Moment 1
God's Promises

A few weeks back Titus and I were looking at his Noah's Ark book. He was searching fervently for the rainbow in his book! He couldn't remember what page it was on but he knew there was a rainbow somewhere in that darn book! Once Titus found the rainbow I thought it would be a great time to talk about God's promises, since God sent that Rainbow as a promise for his people. (Sidenote: We have been listening to a lot of Paul Tripp's teaching on parenting lately, and he talks at lengths about being in AWE of God and how that awe will change the conversations you are having with your kids...It's good stuff...check it out!). I went on to tell Titus that God sent that rainbow in the story as a promise that he will never destroy the earth with water again. That rainbow is a sign to us that God always keeps his promises. Then I told him that God also promises to always to care of us. That is why is he sent us Jesus. Here is how our convo went from there:

Titus: God take of mommy
me: yes God takes care of mommy
Titus: God take of Daddy
me: yes God takes care of daddy
Titus: God take care of Titus and Bram and Gigi and grand daddy and  papa
me: yes he does take care of all of us, how does that make you feel?
Titus: Better

And then he went back to looking at his book.

Moment 2
WEEEEEE

This story is a little less redemptive then the one above but it's true.
A couple days ago Titus was wound up! I mean crazy hyper! He ended up needed to be disciplined for not obeying (he wouldn't stop grabbing his brothers face). So I asked him to wait in the kitchen like I always do until I could come in and talk with him about why he was getting a spanking. So we went through our normal routine, I asked him why he was getting a spanking, we talked about it, and then I gave him a spanking, As soon as the spanking was over he looked at me with a huge smile and yelled....WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! You would have thought I just told him he could have 12 doughnuts for breakfast! Normally we hug and pray after he is disciplined, but this time it took everything in me not to bust up laughing.