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Monday, January 19, 2009

"I Love to See the Temple..."

We took Burke and Hewitt out on a "date" this past Friday night. We got a babysitter for Tosh, and went to the Draper Temple open house and then out to dinner as a special treat (we rarely take our kids to sit-down restaurants...we find that take-out is much more convenient with kids in tow). We had a great time together. In preparation for the open house, we'd talked to the boys about the temple and how special it is to get to go to the House of the Lord. Hewitt has been talking about Jesus a lot lately and recently asked me how Jesus will return to the earth when He comes again and said, "Are there stairs on top of the church from heaven?"

For the beginning of the tour, we watched a video about temples at a neighboring church building and then took a bus from there to the temple. The boys were so excited driving up to the temple that I thought that Hewitt was going to jump/fall out of his seat! When the temple was in view Hewitt giddily said, "I'm so excited to go in the temple! We get to go see Jesus!" Rob explained that although we were visiting Jesus' house, we would probably not see Him, but feel Him there. In recapping the experience tonight with the boys, Hewitt said again that he did see Jesus at the temple and that "He was in the walls."

Burke was very serious at the temple about being reverent and actually embarrassed me once when he "shushed" one of the ushers who was talking loudly. The temple is so special and beautiful and I hope that any of you who live in the area will take the time to go. Our kids had a great time and I hope they were able to feel the Lord's presence; I know I did.

5 comments:

The Laundry Queen said...: I LOVE that Burke shushed the usher! Awesome!; January 19, 2009 at 11:24 PM
Colleen said...: What an amazing opportunity for your kids to be able to go into the temple before it is dedicated! They will always remember that! I hope ours get the opportunity sometime in the not too distant future!; January 20, 2009 at 11:13 AM
SP said...: Tamsen:

It's great to teach your children special truths but even greater to see them put them into practice--I guess you never know how they will do that--until the usher appeared. Ha, ha. How fun!!; January 20, 2009 at 1:53 PM
Perschon Family said...: In the walls huh! I love Hewitt! He cracks me up! Max is very excited to have him in his class in Primary this year!

I'm glad you had such a special night with your boys! It is amazing how "in-tune" kids are to the Spirit when you put them in those places!

We have tickets to go next week. I'm looking forward to it!; January 21, 2009 at 9:08 AM
Anonymous said...: Great outing! I hope ours is just as wonderful next Friday... hubby now has work off every other Friday so we venture off in the morning. Maybe we'll take them out to lunch. Thanks for the great ideas! I love reading your blog. You are a great writer and very entertaining. Of course.; January 22, 2009 at 12:25 PM

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Hewitt was just telling me about a new game he created where you can't touch the ball with your hands or feet. He said, "You can only hit the ball with your leg or foot-wrist." And so I clarified, "You mean your ankle?"
(10/8/09)

Me to Hewitt: Whatcha doin?
Hewitt: Arting. It's making art.
(10/2/09; Hewitt's 5th b-day)

Two jokes by Burke:
What does a storm wear?
Thunderwear!

What do you call King Kong's feet?
Big Foot!
(9/26/09)

I had the following conversation with Tosh:
Me: Are you a boy or a girl?
T: Boy
Me: Is Livvy a boy or a girl?
T: Baby
Me: Yes, but is Baby Liv a boy or a girl?
T: Girl
Me: Is Daddy a boy or a girl?
T: Big boy
Me: Is Mommy a boy or a girl?
T: Mommy a babe!
(Not prompted, I promise! 9/3/09)

Hewitt had set up a bunch of toy figures and Tosh was trying to play with them... Hewitt was telling Tosh not to touch them and I asked him to share the toys or to go and get some more figures for Tosh to play with. Hewitt said, "These are not toys! They are art!" (9/3/09)

We were driving along a road near our house (a rather quiet highway, really) and Hewitt suddenly exclaimed, "Mom! I just found the road to our old house! Keep driving straight!" I looked up and realized there were some big mountains in the FAR distance. Hewitt clearly thought he was staring at Utah. (8/28/09)

Hewitt brought home a little "Groundhog's Day" craft that he had made at preschool and kept calling the groundhog a bear. When I tried to tell him it was really a groundhog he looked at me like I was very silly and said, "It's a BEAR Mom, not a CORNDOG!" (2/2/09)

I explained to Burke about the recent airplane crash into the Hudson River and knowing that he would be very concerned, I quickly told him that all of the passengers were just fine. He looked at me with a worried look and said, "What about the birds? Are they okay?" (1/15/09)

I have a trunk full of old performing costumes from when I was a kid. Hewitt saw the trunk in the basement and told Rob that he wanted to open up the "treasure chest." Rob asked him if he knew what was in the trunk/chest and Hewitt replied that it was full of clothes. When Rob told Hewitt that he didn't want him to make a big mess Hewitt said, "I won't make a mess, I will just get out one clo." I guess that "clo" would be the singular form of clothes... (1/13/09)

Burke is always mentioning how he wants us to have lots more babies because he wants "hundreds" of brothers and sisters. I was explaining to him this morning about how it gets harder and more dangerous to have babies as a woman gets older...he looked at me and said, "Well, you look young Mom, like 19!" Then he leaned in closer and said, "Well, I do see some indents in your skin around your eyes (those would be wrinkles--thanks for noticing)." (12/26/08)

Hewitt blew his nose and must have accidentally gotten some snot or tissue in his mouth because he said, "Yuck! That tastes like cow dung!" (12/24/08)

Tosh got to Hewitt's cup of water at the table today and dumped it all over Hewitt's lap and onto the floor. Rob asked Hewitt, "Are you a little wet?" and he said, "I'm a BIG wet!" (12/24/08)

Rob was playing "Memory" with the boys and when Burke got a few matches in a row Hewitt said, "Wow Burkie, you're on fire!" (11/08)

We just bought some sod for our park strip and while Burke and I were looking at the pallet, I mentioned that some of the pieces looked like crabgrass and that we needed to find the best pieces of grass to buy. Burke looked at the sod for a little while and said, "None of it looks like crap grass to me!"

While I was flossing Burke's teeth he said, "Wait--I need to tell you something." I paused flossing and he said, "You sure know how to be a good mom!" (now there's a treasured compliment!)

Hewitt watched Rob kill a fly in our kitchen and then asked, "Did he cry? Did he want his mommy fly?"

I told Hewitt that I was going to get Tosh a snack and asked if he would like one. He paused and then said, "I'll take a milkshake." What am I, a drive-up window?

Hewitt was asking for toast today and when I pulled out the bread he said, "No, the 'letter O' toast!" I finally figured out that he wanted a toasted english muffin.

Burke came down for breakfast and said, "Mom, it might not look like my bed is made and you might not like it, but it's really stripes that I did as a design on my bed."

Hewitt has really liked eating plain tortillas lately. When I asked him if he wanted one he said, "Oh. Sure. I'll have a mamma mia."

Hewitt understands things very literally. When Rob told him that he "needed to fly" this morning (go to work), Hewitt asked, "Where is the fly? In the house?" When Rob asked him if he had a runny nose he said, "No. It's just boogers."

When Rob was leaving for work he hugged the boys and told them to "be good for Mommy and do exactly what she says." Burke said, "OK bye Dad, you be good at work and do exactly what your boss says."

We were discussing prophets in the scriptures for Family Home Evening and when Rob asked Burke which prophet(s) wrote the Book of Mormon Burke said, "Nephi, Jacob, Enos..." and continued to name the books in order. Rob and I were pretty surprised and couldn't help laughing.

I was just eavesdropping on Hewitt while he was playing with his toys and heard him say, "Ladies and jumpingmen..."

Burke was heading off to a neighbor's house to play and stuck his head back in the door and called, "I'll be traveling by bike."

When the garage door opens for us to drive in, Hewitt will pretend to be scared and say, "Oh no, it's the garage mouth! He's going to eat us!"

Hewitt got distracted and starting playing with his toys during lunch and when I reminded him to please keep eating he said, "But Mommy, I'm working."

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