{C's Daily Prayers} - Despicable Me 2 and Lightning and Thunder

PRAYER #1:

C: "... I am thankful to watch the movie, Despicable Me, and that the minions aren't purple anymore ..."

You can tell he's not a big fan of the purple minions. They were pretty scary.

Two nights ago, C and I went out on a mommy-son date. We watched Despicable Me 2 (his ticket was free because we bought Despicable Me DVD from Amazon.com, and it came with a free movie ticket to see Despicable Me 2) in the theater after sharing a single plate of Panda Express dinner of fried rice/chow mein, and broccoli and beef entree (he doesn't eat much); and a tall cup of Tropical Smoothie chocolate shake.

He sat on my lap the entire time, which I liked. I like cuddling with my boys. The movie was hilarious. I enjoyed it even though there was a huge head blocking my view. He loved it, too.

SPOILER ALERT!!!

If you haven't seen Despicable Me 2 and don't want to see any spoilers, skip to his prayer about the lightning and thunder below. LOL! But if you have seen it or you don't mind spoilers, the minions were turned into monsters - basically eating machines, as in they eat ANYTHING - and they were purple. At the end, of course, Gru's scientist friend, Dr. Nefario, came up with the antidote and turned the minions to friendly yellow moving Twinkies again. YAY!

PRAYER #2:

C: "... I am thankful for lightning and thunder. I am thankful to see grandma again ..."

There's been a sudden thunderstorm tonight. You can see the lightning from the window blinds, and some of the thunder claps were loud and strong enough to shake our house. We were describing it to both C and J. C was taking it well, thinking "thunder" is "Kachicka!!!" and "lightning" is "Ka-Chow!!!" (Chick Hicks and Lightning McQueen in Cars movie). J, on the other hand, was a little bit scared of the thunder claps that he held on to me pretty tight.

{C's Daily Prayers} - Shooting Hands

We recently purchased a Lego Star Wars III The Clone Wars Playstation 3 video game (one of the two videogames we own, the other one is LittleBigPlanet Karting) and C loved seeing the spacecrafts and light sabers and the clones.

Today, I thought I should try watching something else with the boys other than cartoon movies. So I put in Star Wars Episode 1. It was so cool when he knew what we were watching, thanks to the kid-friendly video game. If you know my eldest, he loves movies with racing and action. He loved watching the pod race scene. "Oh no he crashed, Daddy!!!" It was so intense for him, he couldn't take his eyes off. He also pretended his hand was one of those clones' guns. Sometimes he pretended it was a light saber.

Tonight, he volunteered to say the blessing for our dinner, "I am thankful for this food. I am thankful to watch Star Wars. I am thankful to have my hand as a shooting gun. I am thankful to play with [J]. In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen."

He never fails to mention that he's thankful to play with J. But his comment about his pretend play with his hand made me giggle a little bit during the prayer.

 

{C's Daily Prayers} - Despicable Me

Thank you for those who read and commented my previous post. Comments make me smile! ^^

I have a journal meant specifically to write down the funny things or sweet things that my kids said. But I keep forgetting to write in it, or sometimes I get caught up with something else. So I thought of making another category/label in this blog called "C's Daily Prayers" and maybe write those prayers down.

C has started saying his prayers (with our help) when he was about two years old. He started saying it on his own by around three-ish. I always meant to write them down in my "things-they-said" journal because they're just the simplest yet sweetest and most expressive prayers ever, and I want to keep those memories. Children are such sweet spirits!

Well, he recently celebrated his 4th birthday (had a great morning with his grandma and his cousins. We were gonna go to Cars Land as a surprise for him but plans changed and we spent his birthday driving home from CA). We let him pick some toys at Target with his grandma's birthday money gift on our way home (she also gave him a Cars puzzles and book gift). Of course, he picked Cars and he was delighted to have new ones. By "new," I mean race cars other than Lightning McQueen and Finn McMissile (spelling?). It's been 4 days since then.

Tonight, after Daddy brushed his teeth, he walked into their room and sat down beside me and just started saying his prayer. I was not quite ready for my thoughts were flying everywhere before he came in, but I immediately wrapped my arms around him as he said..

"Dear Heavenly Father, I am thankful to watch spickable me [Despicable Me]. I am thankful to play with [J]. I am thankful to play with my cousins and friends, [then names two of his cousins]. I am thankful to go to the store and buy new race cars [that one four days ago]. I am thankful for eating brownie [it has blueberries and carrots which they don't know]. I am thankful for Mommy and Daddy. In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen."

So sweet. I love hearing him pray. So honest.

P.S. J also prays with us. He knows when it's time. Sometimes he'll keep wriggling before we start it but once we start it, he'll stop. Recently though it's been more obvious. He'd fold his arms, like those cute pictures of little kids folding their arms during prayer. He won't talk, but he'll have his eyes open looking at everyone [okay, mom was peeking at him.. haha!]. And just this week he started saying, "Amen" after every prayer. So cute!