Bad Mother!!!

Well, I almost lost Grahm this week. We were at Miller Park playing on the playground equipment with two other families from the branch. Grahm was playing on the equipment and then it was getting close to time to go and he wandered down next to the Little League field (the fence). It was down a little hill, when he was standing you could see him. He kept bending down and I was not sure I liked the idea of him collecting cigarette butts and beer bottles, so I went to get him. He did not want to cooperate, so I told him it was time to go. I then headed back up the hill to where everyone else was (the only direction he could go was up the hill, he could follow the fence a bit, but he would still have to come back up the hill). We finished collecting all of the snacks and the 4 other boys and I went to physically collect him and he was gone!!! I was shocked! I started looking around and someone in the parking lot asked if we were looking for a little boy, he informed us that his wife took him up to the ticket office. It was very busy in the parking lot that day, they had a free prostate screening - so lots of cars coming and going. I was told that was where they had found him - scary! I went running up to the ticket office. When I got there he was being held and was not even slightly upset, he told everyone I had left! We were very lucky, the couple that found him where actually from the branch. Since then Jason keeps telling me I am not allowed to take the kids to the park.

Jayce brag!

I am sitting here not feeling like doing anything, so I thought I would write. The boys are very wild lately, we wish the weather would stay nice so they could burn up some of the energy.
We have had some great experiences lately with Jayce. His primary gave every child a Book of Mormon and a schedule to have it read by the end of the year. It is always good to have temporal influences like that to get the job done. We had been struggling prior to this to have scripture reading very faithfully. As parents you do not want your child to be the one to not complete the task. I think it is great to play on parental guilt. So we have changed and we are right on schedule; however , the last week has been a challenge. It has been a challenge not to have scripture reading, but to get through very many verses. Jayce interrupts 3 or more times per verse to ask what a word means. (We are reading the parts in 2Nephi were Jacob has been reading Isiah, whew!) We love to see his little mind working to understand the difficult concepts. I think he would understand it better if his parents had a better grasp of their gospel dictionary. It has been fun to try and explain things like justice, using everyday examples that he would encounter and then trying to explain that principle in terms of the eternities. Parenting is always a challenge. The other amazing thing about scripture reading is how in the last week his reading skills have taken off. We have been letting him read, to help keep him involved so scripture reading did not turn into Mom or Dad trying to read over the din of the boys playing. He read almost every word in his scripture last night without much help at all, 2Nephi 9:40. He always amazes us.