This morning’s breakfast question makes me tired just thinking about it.
Asher: Mommy, I want you and Daddy to have 2 more babies so we can be seven people like the Slaters.
Me: Well, we’ll see… one at a time.
Asher: No! Can we have 100 babies?!
Me: (I just started to laugh)
Asher: Then we’d have to have a HUGE house, like I’ll have in heaven, because God is going to give me a mansion in heaven!
Well, I got another dose of challenging questions from Asher yesterday. He was being very disobedient, so i sat down with him and talked to him, telling him how he needed to obey Mommy.
Brace yourself… here’s the breakfast table conversation from today.
Asher: Is my heart beating?
Me: Yes. You can feel it in your chest. (we felt his heartbeat and got this big ol’ grin)
Asher: Does everyone have a heart?
Me: Yes. That’s what helps keep us alive.
Asher: Does God have a heart?
Me: Well. Jesus had a heart, because He is a man.
Asher: But does God the Father have a heart? In Heaven.
( I didn’t get a chance to answer that one, because Micah chimed in.)
While we were praying together during family worship one night, Meelah kept jumping up on the counters, so Asher prayed for him…
“Please help Meelah learn to obey and not jump up on the counters or he’s going to have to spend a lot of time in the bathroom” (that’s where we lock Meelah up when he’s being bad).
The boys were playing with their Matchbox cars one day, and this is what transpired…
Micah: Oh, the jeep is stuck!
Asher: Jeeps don’t get stuck, Micah. Land Rovers get stuck.
Micah: My jeep is out of gas. Oh, help me.
Asher: Here’s some gas.
Micah: Okay, let’s go!
Asher: Oh no! My Land Rover is stuck.
Micah: I’ll come pull you out, Ash.
Asher: Can we trade? Because the jeep is better!
Micah: No! The jeep is mine.
Asher: Please? I need the jeep. You can have the Land Rover.
Micah: Okay. Here you go, Ash.
Asher: My jeep is better!
Micah: My Land Rover is faster!
Asher: Come on, let’s play yours gets stuck and I’ll pull you out.
Micah: Help, I’m stuck! I need a jeep.