My Ebenezer

We’re trying to teach Speedy to say grace before he eats his meals. I’ll say, okay Speedy, it’s time to pray….let’s thank Jesus for our food before we eat. And he’ll put his hands together and say “pway”. He babbles a word or two as we go through the “God is good …. God is great” and then he knows right when to say “ahhh MEN” and he throws his little hands in the air. Sometimes half way through the meal, he stops and says again “pway” as he puts his hands together. It’s so sweet!

We’re also learning some songs. I always sing “Jesus Loves Me” to him as I rock him to sleep, but his favorite is definitely “Old McDonald had a Farm”. The only part he sings is “E I E I O” but it comes out as “EEEEE I EEE I EEIIIIIII OOOOOO”! When I was giving him a bath today, I was singing Jesus Loves Me and he was watching me intently. Instead of singing, “yes, Jesus loves me….” I always sing, “Speedy, Jesus loves you….” and when I took a breath he chimed in with “EEEEE I EEEE III EEEEIIIIII OOOO” I guess Old McDonald had Jesus on his farm, too!

Brien and I take turns with Princess – he takes a night then I take a night and so on and so forth. If it is my night to be up with her, then he’ll stay awake and feed her at 1opm before putting her back to sleep. Last night, I came in from bible study and he was in the lazy boy with Princess on his chest. I said, “hey, you’re supposed to be keeping her awake so she’ll sleep better tonight….” he swore she had “just fallen asleep”. Then we had this conversation:

Brien: This is the best sleep there is (as he’s holding her on his chest and resting his own eyes)
Me: It’s so sweet to watch you with her, you’ve never been very interested in little babies and she is so tiny in your big hands
Brien: I have to get all of this I can….it won’t be long before she won’t just lay her and snuggle on daddy’s chest anymore…
Me: Ya, that’s sweet, you should sleep like that all night so I can get some rest, she’ll never sleep good in the bassinet after leaving your chest
Brien: Where should I put her down now? The bed is in our room so I wouldn’t know where to put her down.
Me: You can put a blanket on the floor and lay her down there
Princess: Waaaaa Waaaaa grunt snort fusss fuss fuss
Brien: Oh baby girl, it’s okay. Daddy’s not really going to put you down.

Geez. She’s just a month old and already has daddy wrapped around her little finger! ha ha ha