I am totally smitten with my kiddos…and totally biased that I think they are all pretty great! They are all so different though too, each has his (or her) own bent. One…maybe we’ll call him ‘Micah’, is the rule guy. He is very literal and wants to make sure rules are followed.
We presented about our time in Guatemala at church today. The two younger kids were downstairs in their classes and Jonah and Micah had stayed in the church to listen. Micah had gone to find himself some water and had stayed to help his little sister who was having a hard time in the nursery.
Part way through our presentation, Micah came back into the sanctuary. I figured he had found his water and was coming back in to sit. But, he walked down the aisle, and walked right on past where we had been sitting. What was he doing?
He walked up to us standing up on the stage and I almost thought he was going to come and stand with us. Instead he held a hand up to us holding a starburst candy and said (pretty quietly at least)…”excuse me, someone gave this to me downstairs, can I eat it??”
“Yes, go ahead” we whispered back with our microphones on for all to hear.
And, satisfied that he had done what he needed to do, that rules had been followed, he turned around and walked back down the aisle, out the door and back downstairs.
Smitten with my kids!!
(And more than a little challenged by his desire to always do what is right!)
What a great story. What a great little guy. You have to love him and I do!!