heavenly

Sammy says the sweetest prayers.

First of all his voice raises like 2 octaves when he starts to pray. He must associate tiny high voices with reverance.

Then, he prays for us to "be better." I think this started out long ago with Miranda as praying for us to "get better." But I always love to hear it because I need so much help from Heaven to "be better."

Then he prays for awhile for Heavenly Father to help him not to have bad dreams, and not to have a bloody nose.

For the last several weeks every prayer includes, "Bless the people in Haiti." And after my dad's lesson on donating to Haiti a couple of Family Nights ago, he decided he wanted to give money at our church to the Bishop for the people in Haiti. So he gathered up coins and so did Miranda and they both donated around a dollar the last couple of weeks in an envelope for Haiti.

I have loved being a part of their philanthropic spirit which I absolutely believe is a part of childrens' souls. I pointed out Haiti on the news one day and he said, "I'm giving ALL my money to dem." Full of goodness.

The best was the other night, he said "Heavenly Father...he's my favorite guy."

And He's my favorite too...He let me be a mother.

the object of my affection

He's a cute little squish face. He's getting to be a fatty guy.


And he is still getting mauled by his loving loving loving brother. But in this picture he doesn't seem to mind. (sneakily another important member of the family, sippy cup, steals a cameo here)

He's getting so smiley!

We all love him so much! (Even when our look is less than polished. I promise they clean up well.)

But the thing that Miniman seems to be most dedicated to, the thing that has captured his attention for weeks and demands his devotion and even causes me to post this up-the-nose shot of him gazing, completely enamored...

is this:

bwuthers

There may be future moments when you two disagree or even fight.
Maybe you'll have moments when you compare yourselves to one another.
Maybe you're going to go through periods when you have different friends, or interests.

When those times come I'm going to do my best to remind you about these moments.
When you snuggle together and spend all your time in the same places.
How S-man comes to see Miniman the VERY first thing when he wakes up.
That one of his favorite things is to have me wedge Miniman in the recliner so he can sit by him and watch cartoons together.
That S-man would kiss Miniman every 3 minutes, no exaggeration, if I would allow it.

You two are going to be close.
You will have each other's backs.
Boys are tough.
But I know somewhere inside you will always have the love and tenderness towards each other you have now.