Camel-Squash

I got a kick out of Talmage today when he comes out of his room with this blanket over his head proclaiming "I'm invisible". These days Talmage is on this huge super-hero trip, so anything that even remotely sounds like a super hero thing is sooooo cool. So He comes running out of his room with this blanket "I'm invisible, I'm invisible" then slams into the couch! whoops! I ask him what he's doing and he says "remember when you telled me about the camel-squash and it makes you invisible in the forest" I thought back in my mind, I know I've never said anything about camel-squash so I said "NO" and he says "yeah you remember the camel-squash" and he holds up his blanket. I busted out laughing "Ohhhhh you mean camoflauge" "yeah, camel-squash" he says. Oh my gosh it was so funny!
And just to make you laugh about the super hero thing...about a week ago Tal was saying his evening prayers and right after he thanked Heavenly Father "that all the toys are mine" he quickly says and and thank you Heavenly Father "for having all the powers". So in our house, for now, God is a super-hero. Too funny!

FHE makes me cry!

Don't get me wrong....I love Family Home Evening but when your child truly understands a concept, it can make you cry. At our house, (so that we can all get something out of it) we alternate weeks so every other Monday we have a "kid style" FHE and on the other Monday's we have the "adult" FHE.
So Monday, kid style FHE rolls around and Carlos and I decide to touch upon the "I'm trying to be like Jesus by sharing and being nice to others" point. All is going well until Carlos says "where does Jesus live" Talmage in his usual "know-it-all" self says "in heaven". Fabulous, great answer right? and then he continues "I get to live in heaven too"
"that's right" Carlos and I say (proud with ourselves for atleast teaching him this) until he continues so matter-of-factly. "I'm gonna die and I'm gonna go to heaven"
I become a little perplexed.
Carlos tells him "no Tal your not gonna die".
He comes back even more insistent "everybody dies daddy", "I'm gonna die and Scout (our dog) is gonna die and we're all gonna go to heaven"
At this point tears are beginning to form in my eyes as I keep hearing Talmage contest the fact to Carlos that he IS going to die and go live with Jesus.
Carlos keeps starring at me incredulously as if to say "what do I say".
Finally, bawling, I tell Carlos just make him stop, make him stop. So Carlos makes up some story about Tal playing soccer with his friends and sharing the ball etc...etc....
ANYWAY...moral of this story...it's perfectly fine, absolutely great for my son to know that he's going to live with Heavenly Father and Jesus, but it's another thing when he insists that he IS going to die!

Tal's program

Here's Tal at his hilarious Halloween program at school. I'm so proud of my little guy, he's getting so big! It was so fun to watch him and his little personality(actually it's quite big, for those of you who know Tal, I'm sure you won't disagree) sing songs. We just love Tal's school they do such a great job and he is learning so much. He's almost learned how to write his whole name! YIPPEE!!!.......(ok maybe that was a little much)

Halloween Festivities

Our family tradition of carving pumpkins with Tio Lee and Tia Andrea had lasted for six years and is still going strong. We all got together and had soup in bread bowls for dinner and carved great looking pumpkins...these are the two I carved!

This year we took Tal (along with our friends and their daughter) to Trick or Treat Street. It was so neat. A Hollywood props team came in and erected what looked like a real city block with houses, businesses, a park and all. It was great Tal and Lexi got to knock on every door and boy did they get a lot of candy!