Isaac is at a stage right now that just amazes us. His faith in the Lord is simply phenomenal. The things he comes up with never cease to amaze us. To have the faith of a child! A few examples:
As we were packing up the car, ready to head out on our adventure, Isaac showed Kurt and I a picture he had drawn for Lisa and Dan. It was a drawing of a hand with an x on it. He said, "This is for Auntie Lisa and Uncle Dan. I'm going to give it to them, so that they can see the most perfect hand in the world and remember what Jesus did for them." I can't believe how profound a statement this was! Most people would say it's IMperfect, yet Isaac recognized the perfection of the scar on Jesus' hand. WOW! I've actually scanned the drawing in, since he forgot to give it to them...
To continue with the faith stories, after nap time (better known as "quiet time" for Isaac these days), he came down stairs and said, "I read my Bible to Moses during quiet time.(Moses is his favorite monkey - made for him, named, and given to him before he was born by Auntie Jen and Auntie Trina. Moses goes almost everywhere with us.) He wanted to hear more stories of Jesus." I said, "oh, which ones?" He told me Moses wanted to hear the birth story of Jesus. Then he said with great enthusiasm, "Guess what? Moses asked Jesus to be in his heart!" He was so excited about it! It was pretty cute. (Our little evangelist...)
Okay, so more funny stories of Isaac on the trip. As we're driving west from Colorado Springs, the mountains and the colors of the changing leaves were just gorgeous. Our timing couldn't have been any better. The next day, however, the scenery was very different - gorgeous in a different way, but very dry and desert-like. After a bit of driving, Isaac asked when we'd be out of the desert. We both non-chalantly said we'd be in the desert much of our trip. A few hours later, he said, something about the desert again. I turned to Kurt and asked him if he had talked to him about the desert. He said, no, but that he assumed I had. Neither of us had, so I asked Isaac how he knew we were in the desert. He said, "Well, it looks like where Moses was - I saw the sand, and cactus, and just knew we were in the desert - like Moses was." We both just laughed.
Today, on the way home from school, Isaac was telling me about his day, and was so excited that Caroline had told him he was her friend again. (There was a little issue last week, regarding some confusion as to whether or not Isaac was just "rubbing" his nose or possibly being a little more gross...you know how girls can be...I suggested to Isaac that he not "touch" his nose, and maybe he should make friends with some "lower maintenance" boys.) Anyway, after telling me about Caroline, he told me that one of the other girls wasn't being as nice. I said something about how I hope he doesn't ever not be nice to people and that he should be careful to not let other people impact his actions or the way he treats people. He said, "don't worry mom, I won't let my attitude change because of her." Oh, it just makes me laugh.
Tonight at the dinner table, we asked Austin if Ms. Jackie (his sweet teacher) was glad to have him back. He said, yes. Then Isaac said, "My teacher was delighted to have me back!" Obviously we couldn't contain our laughter on that one.
One last note on Isaac's commentary: he has begun to talk very colloquially. It's quite strange, almost pre-teen-esque! He uses the word, "like" all the time! It's scary. I had to call my mom and tell her I felt her pain from when she had three teenage daughters, but I only have a four-year-old!!
So there's a taste for Isaac's personality right now...here's a bit of Austin:
Both Kurt and I regret that we didn't take photos of each of the places Austin lay down in the middle of a path, road, floor to show us his disdain for our decisions. It would have made for a great scrapbook page(s) or blog! Let's just say, he's certainly a typical 2 year old AND he didn't have many naps on the trip and didn't get as much sleep at night. All that said, he still did incredibly well.
Austin is really becoming very polite - without too much prodding now, which is so nice! He's even received compliments for it lately! We're very proud of him. But, sometimes he's so fast that his, "May I please ..." gets so jumbled no one has any idea what he's saying. He always says, "My do it" and My in place of I. So, yesterday I tried to correct him when he said, "My like..." I said, "I like..." He then said, "Me too, mommy!" It was quite funny...(Who's on first...)
I leave you tonight with the stats of our beautiful, growing, little 6 month old! She went for her 6 month check-up today and weighs in at a whopping 18 lbs, which is the 90th percentile and she's in the 95th for height at 27.5 inches!! She's healthy and happy, that's for sure.
