Wait For Me Jesus!

Today, I realized how much fun it is to be in Jr. Primary with James. He's in the Sunbeams and I teach the CTR 6 Class, so I'm only with him during Jr. Primary, then we go to our individual classes. The past weeks he has been having troubles with the transition of now going to Primary instead of Nursery. He has been sitting with me and not his class during the combined hour. However, today was different. Since it was the fourth Sunday, our ward does a combined Jr. and Sr. Primary during the 3rd hour so all the kids go to their class during the 2nd hour. It helped having the separation first for James because during Primary he actually sat with his class and not once tried to come sit with me.

Any way,  the point of this post is this fun thing he said during Sharing Time. The Primary President started off by showing this picture and hadvone of the kids tell the story.

Then she started asking the kids if they were watching a movie or playing a video game and Jesus asked you to follow him, what would you do? One of the kids say to pause the game and follow him. Then she said that it doesn't matter whatever we are doing we should stop what we are doing and follow Jesus. Do you think that the apostles just paused the fish or say hang on Jesus let me finish fishing? No, they just dropped the fish and followed him. At this point James then started saying, " You got to just drop the fish and follow Jesus. If Jesus starts walking away, just say "Wait for me Jesus."  and you got to drop the fish and follow Jesus." I admit I started paying more attention to what he was saying instead of what the Primary President was teaching. It is just do neat to see him making connection with the pictures and the stories and paying attention to what is being taught. I can't wait to see what else he says in the future.

And to top it all, he looked just adorable and
handsome in his new church clothes.

New resolutions

I've been thinking about what goals I wanted to make this year. I didn't really do any last year and wish I had. It is always good to work on improving ourselves. This time I didn't want a ton of goals because I know the more pressure I feel the less I want to do it. So here's to pressure free, self improving goals.

• Make breakfast more often at least 2-3 days a week. I'm not all that great at making breakfast in the mornings. It is just easier to pull out the cereal. It will be nice to have some wholesome family breakfasts together.
• Be outside for at least 30 min and 2 days a week we'll go on a walk. We've gotten lazy about being out doors. How can we just sit inside when it is so nice outside just about everyday?
• Read this years Teachings of the Presidents of the Church manual. Since I'm in primary, I don't get the chance to hear the lessons from the manual. Definitely beneficial to read the lessons on my own.
• Plan weekly date nights, at least once a month away from home. I haven't done well with doing date nights with Tracy, since becoming parents. I've just used the excuse that there isn't anyone to watch James. But date nights can be at home too. So, here's to doing more together as a couple.
• I haven't quite decided on this one. It will either be to do more crafts or some other personal development goal.

So there are my resolutions. Hoping for a great year!

James-isms

A couple of funny things James has said this week.

This morning James was watching Curious George, the episode where George goes to school. I asked James if he wanted to go to school. He replied saying, "No, I want to say home with mommy." Moments like that make me feel grateful to be a mom.

Yesterday, I was babysitting a 2 year old boy who James loves to play with. We had him over for a little over 3 hours (probably the longest we've babysat him for). After he left James exclaimed, " I can play with all my toys now." Guess he was glad to have them to himself again.

Saturday night, Tracy was tucking James into bed while telling him that tomorrow will be Sunday, and he will be going to church and will get to play with other kids in nursery. James then replies, "Tomorrow, I'll go play with kids, go to the beach and play in ocean, see temple and open present."

Since we have been back from Utah, James has been talking about snow and making snow balls. He seriously loved the snow. Guess his love for it hasn't left him, since we moved. He just absolutely hated being bundled up. Pretty sure in his mind the perfect scenario would be to play in the snow barefoot and in shorts and a t-shirt.