Ben Logic

"If I'm thirsty and I don't drink, then I'm thirsty" I Love the logic of a five year old child!!!

In my Neighbors sweet words

This story below was written and posted on my SWEET neighbor's blog, Amy Shaw, and in Ben's eye's his second mother. I love the Shaw family, having them as neighbors makes our real-estate priceless.

Sunday, January 11, 2009

The Case of The Missing State Ring
The hiding place.
The State Championship Class ring.
Mischievous Ben--The Culprit
Ben--my sweet little buddy
Today is Allie's birthday. She turned 16, but that will be another blog. This one, however, is pretty interesting since it involves the miracle of prayer, gemstones, rings, bad guys, a mischivous little boy, and a very secret hiding place.
For Christmas the only thing Allie really wanted was a state championship class ring. It arrived at the high school just days before Christmas and was all that she had hoped for. It even had engraved on it something no other soccer class ring could say, "first ever". Well a few days ago Allie came home to discover her ring and the velvet box missing from her dresser. Allie is pretty good at keeping her room clean and orderly so she probably didn't just misplace it. She and the little kids looked and looked but to no avail. Again this morning she tried to get her family" looking for her ring as a birthday present. Marcus and Mia were pulling out books from the shelves, looking in toy boxes, but came up with nada. I decided that maybe we should make this a matter of prayer, so after Allie opened her presents we knelt in a circle holding hands and asked Heavenly Father to help us find the ring.
Because my faith isn't as tuff as it should be there is always the fear that if we don't find the ring then the kids will think that the Lord really doesn't hear their prayers. But we resumed looking trying to do our part. A few minutes later, our neighbor boy, Ben, one of my very favorite people in the world burst through the door yelling for Marcus. "I have my good Knights, Marcus so you can play with me." He said. (He has a little confusion with say, "goodnight" and knowing that Knights in his mind are cool and good.) I felt to ask him about the ring so I took him aside and carefully told him about our problem. This was his response. . .
"Oh Amy, I am so sorry, I took the ring and threw it away." I panicked until he continued on. "Yea, I think it was a ring of a bad guy so I threw it away in the laundry room behind the stuff." And then just to make sure we were still friends, he said, "Oh I wuv you Amy so I'm sorry I took Allies wing." Then with perfect memory he was able to lead me to the ring. I had to pull out quite a bit of stuff to find it back behind our Christmas tree, the one we didn't use this year, and probably wouldn't have used again next year since we're back into getting live trees. I don't think we would have EVER found that ring on our own. I believe it was a tender mercy sent from our Father in Heaven to let us know that he is aware of us, even of our little material possession worries.

sense/cents

This must be posted so I can giggle about it later...Ben is often saying some of the funniest things...then I forget to write them down. He has the best imagination, therefore the stories he tells are never dull. So, today I was asked to bring Emmy to Ben's school. His class is talking about the 5 senses. I brought Emmy to class to teach the kids how I use my senses to care for Emmy. Ben was so thrilled to see me there. He said to teacher Laura, Is that MY MOM??? Anyway, later at home Ben had put some of his money on the ground and Emmy imediatley crawled to it and had a penny in her mounth in a nano second. I said to Ben see Emmy is using one of her senses, what is it? He said ohhh, it's my cents, all matter of factly...
Yep, she tasted Ben's Cents:)

Spring Has Sprung

Easter morning...Ben, Gracie and Emmy enjoyed the Easter bunny's offerings! Most popular was the bubble machine.
While Colby did some more homework the kids and I walked through the field. A flood of childhood memories came to me, as this is where we found most of our fun as kids. Ben looked in every puddle of water for a new pet frog, as Gracie followed behind in bare feet, and Emmy on my hip as we chased her siblings. Eventually I cohersed them back home for a quick scrub, and they all enjoyed putting on their cute Easter attire. I said oh you all look so cute, but Ben corected me by saying, no I look handsome and Gracie looks Beautiful...
We went to Grandma Wendy's and Grandpa Thel's for Easter dinner, and an egg hunt. We dyed eggs too. Gracie's method was best...She just held the egg whild she plunged it into the dye, creating pretty eggs and fingers too.