Rich and Kim's blog: 3-year old prayers

Monday, November 24, 2008

3-year old prayers

So, Ryan's totally into Thomas the Tank Engine and has been praying for Terrance the Tractor for quite a while now. I told him that maybe Santa would bring him Terrance for Christmas. . .Anyways, this morning he was playing with the Thomas brochure that shows all the various, overpriced Thomas accessories. When it came time to say our morning prayer Ryan insisted on doing it. He started the prayer by asking for more money to buy more trains and than paused. Then he walks over to the Thomas brochure, points out to Heavenly Father the next train he'd like to get (Edward) and then resumes the prayer. We find ourselves silently, and not so silently, cracking up during so many prayers lately. Considering how much these trains cost he'll be praying for a while to get Edward:).

6 comments:

Stacy Russon said...: smart boy that he doesn't ask you for the toy instead he realizes that prayers always get answered. I like that, that's a hard position to be in, Ryan is a crack up!; November 24, 2008 at 11:40 AM
Bunch of Brooks' said...: That is a REALLY cute story; good one to remember and tell him about later. You guys have a great little family!!; November 24, 2008 at 11:54 AM
Dalene said...: That is way too funny, Kim. I love him!; November 24, 2008 at 12:00 PM
Berrett's said...: That is hillarious!! I would TOTALLY crack up during the prayer...oye. hope you are doing well!!!

tina; November 24, 2008 at 1:22 PM
Gordita said...: Ryan is a man who knows what he wants, and wants to make sure Heavenly Father knows it too. I have been giggling about this (and the candy wreath on his plate) since I read it.; November 25, 2008 at 8:08 AM
Marlies said...: I love kids prayers. That one is priceless. You have never heard anything like my sisters little boy saying "bless President Uchdort." I love those prayers. Maybe we should all take lessons.; November 25, 2008 at 8:16 AM

Ryan says the funniest things

Ryan: "Can I use the computer?"

Me: Nope, I'm using it right now.

Ryan: "But I NEEEEED to. I'm just going to check my email."

Ryan is putting an animal puzzle together. The next piece to put in is the parrot.

Ryan: "Where does the carrot bird go?"

After going potty for a LONG time Ryan runs out to us and says, "Mommy I just went number TEN!"

Ryan calls his Aunt Renae "Aunt Bernae"

Ryan calls his uncles Dan and Keith "Apple Dan and Apple Keith"

Ryan calls Target "the Popcorn Store"-this is because I used to always get him popcorn when I shopped there so he'd be occupied for a long time and I could browse.

Ryan calls Costco "the Birthday Cake Store"-this is because one time I bought a cheesecake there for Bunko.

Ryans calls Lowes "the Christmas Store". We have no idea why. We never bought anything Christmasy there. He also calls his small yellow blocks "Christmas". Not Christmas blocks. Just Christmas.

Whenever we see an airplane Ryan says, "It's going to the Oport!"

Since Ryan was about a year old he said the word, "Doodah" and soon after he started saying "Meeeem". We don't know where these came from but he still says them.

The other day I threw away one of Ryan's drawings (I know, bad mom:). Later he was throwing something away and saw the drawing in the trash and said, "Mommy, that is NOT VERY NICE!" and he took it out.

When Ryan was about 2 1/2 he started saying, "I have a IDEA!" and we'd say, "What's your idea?" and he'd say, "Oh, number 2." His idea was number 2 for a long time until all of a sudden it changed to number 4.