Mommy's Helper

This morning after breakfast Austin and I went upstairs to brush our teeth and do morning chores like making the bed. I was doing this and that in my room and noticed that he was going back and forth between my room and his. You know what he was doing?

Carrying diapers from the basket in my room into his room and putting them in the drawer! (I think there are a few on the floor because the drawer got full.) The correct drawer, no less, even though it is hardest for him to reach. I love it!

At Least One of Us Has No Reason to Feel Guilty

After church this morning Zach suggested we go out to lunch. Given that it was basically naptime, we knew we had to choose someplace quick and casual. We settled on Wendy's. (It just reopened this week due to a fire last summer, so it is currently the place to go in Indiana.) This is not really like us, you know. Going to eat fast food, I mean. We could probably count the number of times we eat fast food per year on one hand. We are more into slow food, organic food, local food...

But anyway, we went, ignoring any feelings of guilt. Zach ordered their new Asian Sweet and Spicy Boneless wings (which we highly recommend, by the way) and a baked potato, I ordered chicken nuggets and mandarin oranges; we also ended up with a small fries due to a Wendy's mistake. We figured we would just share our stuff with Austin. Did he want Daddy's wings? No. Did he want Mommy's chicken nuggets? No. Did he want french fries? Maybe a few bites. Did he want mandarin oranges? Yes. He ate the whole bowl while Zach was getting our drinks!

Kind of makes you feel good, you know? You must be doing something right when you take your kid to Wendy's and all he wants to eat is mandarin oranges.

Bible Story

Every night at bedtime we read a Bible story with Austin and pray with him. Here's how it went tonight, with a picture to help set the scene.

Daddy: This is a man whose name

Austin: (pointing) Daw! (dog)

Daddy: is Isaiah. God

Austin: Daw!

Daddy: sent him to tell the people

Austin: Daw! Daw!

Daddy: what they should do. He is called a

Austin: Daw!

Daddy: prophet. Can you say "prophet"?

Austin: Daw!

Daddy: The people are bad and God sends him to tell

Austin: Daw!

Daddy: them to stop being bad. He says that

Austin: Daw!

Daddy: if they don't, God will hurt their country, and wreck their cities, and burn up their houses.

Austin: (laughs)

Daddy: God is sorry when His people sin and

Austin: (laughs)

Daddy: do wrong things. God sends Isaiah to help them stop doing what is bad.

Goodness, I love this little boy!

Pictures I Should Have Posted Already

Sorry, Mom and Becky, I know I haven't been posting pictures of Austin nearly often enough for you. Here's some cuteness from July that I just never got around to posting before. Most of these are from the Collins' visit a few weeks ago.

I think this is cute; they're watching SportsCenter together.

Austin vs. Eeyore