Saturday, October 24, 2009

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!

4 comments:

red said...

Awesome!! I think that somehow Cayden passed some of his undying energy to my baby. Thanks for that :)

Michelle said...

I keep thinking about him saying and treats. :)
So cute

Mom B said...

Cayden is totally focused. I told him we could put water in his squirt gun tomorrow and shoot Grandpa. First thing he said to Suz when he woke up - "Shoot Grandpa"! And he didn't stop until we found the squirt gun and he could shoot Grandpa... and the furniture, and the walls and Grandma...

Treible's Tribune said...

My name is Kyra...I clicked on the next blog button and you came up. Loved your blog about the apartment complex playa...My husband and I totally know that guy! And thanks for the heads up on what annoying shows NOT to let our kids watch when we have them. Happy bloging!