He totally loves dancing, as soon as he hears music he's off, even if its the radio playing in the kitchen! He has his favourite songs, he sings along to his tv character shows and each time he thinks i'm unhappy he starts to sing Twinkle Twinkle in the sweetest high pitched voice ever! I look at him and tell him how beautiful that was and that I love to hear him sing. I remind him that if i'm not always smiling thats not because i'm sad, sometimes its because I have nothing to say {yes it does happen!} or i'm thinking, or even concentrating. He looks at me with twisted expressions trying to ascertain if i'm being honest with him! We get there though, I think its so sweet that he cares how I feel, though I dont want him to feel that he is responsible for my feelings either.
Conversation over breakfast:
Me: Charley will you go and get your clothes now please?
Charley: I'm on the case {said in the Tigger voice}
Kirsten: I'll time you
Charley: No Kirsten, I'm not a cooker and your not a timer!
Conversation after our morning cuddle in bed when Charley knocked my drink over by accident:
Me: Oops, Kirsten grab that towel quick
Charley: Sorry mum {giving me the saddest face ever}
Me: Dont worry, its just a drink
Charley: Thanks mum
Me: Move your foot Charley, QUICK
Charley: I AM quickin!!!
Conversation whilst I stood in the kitchen talking to the cat:
Charley: MOM!
Me: What?
Charley: I LOVE YOU!
Me: I love you too
Charley: Thanks mum
Me: Your welcome
Charley: I'm glad your my mum
Me: Oh thank you, i'm glad i'm your mum too
Charley: You are? You love me that much? {raising his eyebrows and stretching his arms}
Me: More than that, way more
Charley: Wow mum, your so cool
Me: Yeah I just rock eh? {whispered to myself in amusement}
Sometimes we have the smallest insights to his mind, yet they most often come out in his fantastic sense of humour. Charley loves tools, there are some tools I let him play with and sometimes when the quesitons and curiosity is there I will let him fiddle with something around the house. Tonight it was a door handle. He wanted to know what it was like inside so I said, come on lets find out. He unscrews the four screws and we take off the cover, once he's got his fix of information we put it back on and thats that. However, before bedtime he went off to put his toys/tools away while I was finishing off preparing dinner for tomorrow. We went through the bedtime routine, said our goodnights and I came back downstairs. Going into the living room I ended up walkin in the door, the little meister had taken the screws off and strategically positioned the handle back on to look normal! For a second I was confused and annoyed that i'd walked into a door, why didn't I open it first?!! Then it dawned on me, THAT is Charley's humour all over. He must have heard me cos I heard him giggling upstairs.
Anyway, I digress!
Crafts, we made a really pretty tree for the bunnies and other animals, which now has pride of price on our dresser in the hallway....
Then came a table display for when we have our special Easter Sunday dinner....all made from cut outs from a book he had or a tag banner I broke down, along with pipe cleaners, shredded tissue paper and the craft tin....
Charley is a boy who loves to show you how he feels. After our crafting time Kirsten took Charley out to the park for a while, giving me the chance to prepare for this evenings lesson about the final hours of Christs life and the meaning of His resurrection. On their return this is how I was greeted by my lil man...
For the purpose of the tape, yes he is almost always wearing his fireman outfit, no matter what the weather, he is fireman mad. The house is called the firestation, my car is no longer the Mini Merc it is Jupiter and I am fireman mum! He wont let me cut his hair cos he wants it 'long like Scotts' and will often be seen flattening it down with or without water! However, back to the flowers, he couldn't get up the stairs fast enough to give me these little erm...pretties!!
Ok, back on track! I put together some Easter themed bunting, placemats and napkins....but I haven't photo'd them yet....so I'll show them off later. Sorry this is a long post, it is for the purpose of two luverly friends of mine who wanted me to do this post as they live in the states. **waves** to Lin and Jen :)
There's more....
Over dinner we always read something from the scripture and/or the Friend, New Era or the Ensign. Tonight we listened to the talk from Elder Jeffrey R Holland, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles which I shall be posting here tomorrow morning before I go to church. We listened in total silence, by the end of it both Kirsten and I could feel the spirit abundantly. Then for the purpose of Charley who had been fantastic and patient throughout so far and who knows what he actually understood, we then switched over to watch a Book of Mormon Stories in movie form, THIS got his attention with a million questions, he told me what was happening and what came next! This kid is limitless!
Once the viewing was over, we talked about what we had watched, discussed how it made us feel, our gratitude and love for Jesus Christ and resolved to set more goals to work towards putting the Lord first in our lives as much as we can. This is a family thing that i'm not going to share on here but its all good stuff!
Bedtime this evening was so much more relaxed and meaningful than other nights. I really saw how much my children know and love the Lord this last few hours. I just have to remember that they can only go as far as I lead them, so I too have to stay on track!
Ok, thats it for now. Tomorrow i'm going to share the talk that Elder Holland gave in General Conference last week, later in the evening I shall be posting about what we got out of the day, cos when all is said and done, we are all brothers and sisters of Jesus Christ, we are all children of a very loving Heavenly Father and we all have Easter somewhere in our lives!
Happy Easter :)
~*~Debs~*~
