Kids Pray the Darndest Things

Cayden is getting to the point where he is starting to understand how prayers work. We have been working on it so that when the Bishop comes over and asks to pray we are not totally embarrassed.

The cute thing is he is now realizing that you can pray to ask for things. A couple of weeks ago he had a bad case of diaper rash that made his "bum" hurt. At dinner we were about to say a blessing on the food and Cayden asked Suzanne to bless his bum so it would not hurt. She did. I fought back laughter.

Last week we were saying prayers with him before we went to bed. He has the "Heavenly Father" part at the beginning down pat. It is touch and go after that. Anyway, Suzanne was trying to get him to repeat what she was saying in the prayer.

As a little bit of background, we had just carved pumpkins or "pum-pins" and Cayden was distraught that we did not have any candles to put in them. As a result, the prayer went something like this:

Suz: Please bless Grandma and Grandpa.

Cayden: Bless candles

Suz: ...Please bless Grandma and Grandpa.

Cayden: Candles!

Suz: Ok...please bless us that we can get some candles at the store tomorrow.

Cayden: and treats!

Blogservation #2

Cayden is watching TV and I am on the laptop. He is watching a PBS show, Caillou. Have you seen it? Caillou is perhaps one of the most annoying little cartoon boys you could imagine. The voice...so painful.

Anyway, what I cannot figure out is why is Caillou bald? He is obviously old enough to have hair. His younger sister, Rosie, has a moptop, so why is Caillou bald?

My theory: the show's storyboard artists are lazy. Why add labor-intensive details like hair to the main character? He is in every scene. At least Caillou has a line for a nose. While googling Caillou to see if I was spelling his name correctly I came across the show's home page where they had the frequently asked questions page. Guess what number one was...

WHY IS CAILLOU BALD?

Their response was less than satifactory:

Generally, for children, Caillou is a larger than life image of a preschooler. The fact that he is bald does not seem to bother preschoolers in the least. Not only do they never mention it, but when asked to think about why Caillou has no hair, our focus groups just laughed and replied: "He just doesn’t have any hair!"

Thank you PBS for dodging that one. If I went to the doctor and asked why I was bald and all the doctor could tell me was: "Well, it doesn't seem to bother other people" I would ask for my co-pay back.

During my Caillou "research" I came across some pretty amusing comments from viewers who compared his voice to nails on the chalkboard and Chinese water torture.

Ultimately, I am not too upset by the hair thing. I think I am probably more upset that I just spent the last hour researching a show about a four-year-old cartoon boy. There is an hour of my life I will never get back.

Band-Aids

Today I replaced the 25-year-old light in our bathroom with a shiny new one. If you have ever been to your great-grandmother's house, you have seen the light I am talking about. It features two glass domes hanging from gold chains attached to the ceiling by hooks. Classy.

As always, Cayden helps dad with anything involving tools. After I got my toolbox out of the garage, Cayden went and got his "tools." He actually has a toy tool set. While I put the light on he got all of his tools out and went to work.

Shortly after I finished I asked him to pick up his tools. He was not interested. A few minutes later I was walking across the floor and accidentally stepped on one of his "tools." I said "Ouch! Cayden, can you pick up your tools? I just stepped on one and it really hurt!"

He made no attempt to pick up the tools. Instead, he brought me a band aid. The squeaky wheel gets a band aid.