A phone call from who!?!

After getting home from church a few Sundays ago, I was casually tidying-up the kitchen when the phone rang. Keep in mind that Dan is still at church for meetings. Coleman was anxious to get the phone. I hear him talking to himself:

"Let's see who it is ...."

(pause.... he's reading the caller ID)

"It's Jesus!!"

A picture of his face at this moment would be worth a thousand words because words could never do it justice. It was Dan calling and the caller ID actually read "CHURCH OF JESUS". This experience might not speak too highly of his intelligence, but it does of his faith. He's the kid who immediately kneels down to pray when he loses something, and immediately kneels down to thank Heavenly Father when he finds it. He's found a few lost teeth that way long after I'd given up. A child's faith many times puts me in my place.

Moral: We don't need a phone to talk to our Savior. What a blessing and a miracle the way prayer works.

Mad Scientists

Happy Birthday Coleman!!!

We celebrated Coleman turning 7 by having a "mad scientist" party. Here they are making slime. (Coleman's in the middle). We used glue, water, and borax - the boys loved it! We erupted a volcano, looked at things through an eye-clops microscope on tv, mixed primary colors to get the secondary colors, saw what static electricity does to balloons, and our traditional spider web, of course. The boys even mixed their own color of frosting and frosted their own cupcakes.

The day after the party was Sunday. Coleman brought a transformer to sacrament meeting to play with. I thought it would be quiet enough and not cause any problems. Well, Jamison really wanted it too. I went back a forth saying, "Jamison - it's his new birthday toy," and "Coleman you should share with your brother," and "Jamison - you're too old to need a toy during church." Finally the inspiration hit. I said, "Coleman, why don't you say a prayer and see what Heavenly Father wants you to do." So this new little 7-year-old went to the end of the pew, actually knelt down and said a prayer. Then he got up with an angry look on his face, threw the transformer into Jamison's lap and mumbled, "Oh, Fine!!!"

I'm proud of him doing the right thing, for the right reason. Now he just needs to work on the right attitude!