And Another One

This latest Bubby-ism came tumbling out last night when we were at Chili's, just after our dinner was place on our table:

Bubby: "Hey, we're at a restaurant, so we don't have to pray! At home we have to pray before we eat, but not at a restaurant!"

Thank goodness for his dad, who told him to say a prayer in his head when we are at a restaurant. But then, this was the reply:

Bubby: "You know what I just prayed for in my head? I just prayed that I can have a green card day at school tomorrow."

Well, he was thinking ahead to not getting in trouble at school (a "green card" means he didn't get in trouble. Trouble at school leads to a yellow card, then a red card, then a blue card - he's had several yellows, about 3 reds, but no blues. When he keeps his card on green, he gets a slushy from Sonic - you know, they have half price drinks from 2-4, so this little reward system only costs me $0.50).
Now if he had caught that what his dad was getting at was to ASK A BLESSING ON HIS FOOD in a silent "head prayer", I might feel a little less guilty right now. I mean, seriously, how have I passed on to him that NOT praying is a RELIEF of sorts? I feel an FHE lesson about the BLESSING of prayer is imminent!
Oh, yea. We are not consistent about FHE, either. Great, bring on the guilt~

Bubby-isms

As we were leaving:
Bubby: "Bye Haba"
Haba (aka my mom): "Bye Darlin'"
Bubby: "Did you just call me 'darlin'? Well I'm gonna call you Haba Bobba!"

At Church, on the way out of the chapel going to Primary:
Bubby: "Bye Haba"
Haba: "Bye Honey"
Bubby: "Did she call me 'honey'? Honey is for Bees!"

I love this kid!

Before I forget...

I wanted to post a few highlights of the Primary Program (at my sister's ward) from whence I just returned:

How can you help your family feel the spirit:
"I can play nithe with my thithta!"
"I can be REVERENT" (Yes, reverent was spoken with great exuberance)

Caveat:
Some of the children reminded me of some of the children in my ward in Harvest Hills. Oh how I miss my ward family there.
Okay, back to the highlights from today:

Quote:
"I lived with Heavenly Father" (long pause, deep breath) "before I came to earth"

THE highlight:
An 11 year old girl with a very powerful voice sings a solo of "I Love to See the Temple", which in itself was amazing. But the best part was right after she finished, Bubby turned to me and said "She has the spirit".
Instantly, tears sprang to my eyes. My 6 year old felt and recognized The Spirit.
It's a good Sabbath!

On the Playground

Overheard:
First grade girl chasing first grade boy: "I'm gonna kiss you!"

Observed:
6th Grade Girl:
Wearing shorts SO SHORT the bottom 3" of the linings of the pockets stuck out BELOW the bottom of the shorts.

What have we learned:
Lock up your boys! The girls seem to be on the prowl!

PICTURES!

They are on Facebook. For now. If you would like to see them, look at my album on facebook. If you are not my "friend" on facebook - invite me to be your friend! If you do not have a facebook account, send me an e-mail to request that I e-mail pictures to you, or leave your e-mail in the comments, and I will e-mail pictures to you.

I WILL post pictures here on this very blog, as soon as I learn to watermark them (protect them from weirdos wanting to copy and paste them and use them for evil). Does anybody out there know how protect pictures from being "lifted" from a blog? I would love for you to share!

Have a nice day!

On the Way Home....

from our weekend camping excursion, here is how the conversation went:
D - Okay, look out the window and see if you can see any animals.
Bubby: Like ELF?
Me: It's ELK, Bubby. With a K.
Bubby: Are you talking about ELK?
Me: Yes.
Bubby: I don't see any.

And that was the beginning of a WAY TOO LONG CAR RIDE. Yes, my adventuring husband said, "Let's take a different way home than we came". This turned into SEVEN AND A HALF HOURS in the car yesterday. It should NEVER take that long to get home from CAMPING. At about hour 6 I said,"Wow, we could have camped at Zion's for as long as this ride home is!". Really, we were only camping about 4 hours away - IF we had not chosen the "road less traveled by!"
And now we know.