Thankful Grant and Sad Grant

Something really cool happened today with Grant: Before his nap today he put his hands together and said, "Pray" meaning "It's time to pray"

So I started with "Dear Jesus" and Grant said the same thing in Grant Version. Then I said "Thank you for..." and Grant filled in the blank with "Tatie" who was standing right next to his bed. Then I said "Thank you for..." and he said "Dada".

We kept going and he continued to fill in the blanks after I said, "Thank you for..." He said, Tatie, Dada, Mamum, Me (pointing to himself), eeea ( eat thanking for food), he said someone's name that I'm not sure, then 'ho' meaning "home". I thought that was so sweet! And the last two were "piwwow" (pillow) and then "agh" (roaring and pointing to his lion that sleeps on his bed next to him.

It was the coolest thing. It's the first time he's ever done anything like that meaning filling in the blanks with specific things/words!!! Normally, he prays along with us and we go slow and pause so he can try to repeat what we say. But today was different because nothing was prompted and everything he said he came up with on his own!

Tonight he did it again but this time with a few different things. After the four of us he said a few words that I didn't understand and then he said "Papa" (my dad who he just saw over the weekend when he was in town) and then "Nana". What's cool about that is for the longest time whenever referring to my mom or going to my mom's house, he always says "Papa?" like "going to Papa's house?". And we always say, No, Nana's house. We're going to see Nana." Since my dad lives/works out of state it's just easier this way.

Anyway, he clearly distinguished between the two and that was really cool.

One more thing I'll share...on a somewhat funny note: Saturday I started coming down with a cold and by Saturday night I was not in good shape. My voice started acting weird sometime Saturday afternoon and by the end of the night it was gone. So Christina and I are driving home from the carnival with Grant and Kate and we had the windows open. The windows were open all the way because some little girl stunk it up big time. We just passed the first light on Renner when Christina says, "I think Grant just threw his sock out the window" Great. I look in my side mirror and see something bounce. I'm thinking it's not his sock but his shoe. Great. So I panic and turn around as quick as I can. By this time my voice was shot and I couldn't yell at him if I wanted to!!! By the time I get back to the place where we thought he threw his shoe out I start praying, I just bought him new shoes last Saturday! And inside his shoe is an orthotic from Scottish Rite Hospital!!!!! So I'm praying that God would protect his shoe from being run over as I turn on Telecom. I can see something from the intersection before I turn onto Telecom and I'm thinking it's his shoe. So I pull over as soon as I could, jump out, and sprint for his shoe. I run onto Renner, grab his shoe, and sprint back to the car. Yeah, his shoe was OK! It was right between the inside and middle lane laying on it's side. I'm sooooooo thankful it did not get run over! God protected his little shoe and spared me the hassle of getting another pair of shoes and orthotic to go with it!!!!!!!! Grant is such a toot throwing his shoe out the window! What was he thinking?? "Hmm...this will be fun. I'll throw my shoe out the window." !!!

Since I couldn't talk more than a wisper I saved the punishment for later when I could talk to Joel about it. We decided appropriate punishment is that he can no longer have his window down when we are driving in the car! He asks for his window down quite often, especially with the weather being so nice lately, so I know he will be sad the next time he asks for his window down. Poor Grant but Poor Mommy who had to go run and get his shoe while feeling like crap! Agh....