A Bath with my Dad

crashed on gma e's couch after a hard day of playing with his cousins

Eli and I were having a deep discussion about birthdays today. He is determined that every day is his birthday, or mine, or Blakey's.

He said "blakey had his birthday so he is three".

me -"yep. how old will you be on your birthday?

E - "five. then i will have another birthday and be six and then i will have another birthday and i will be seven. (at this point my eyes fill up and I'm ready to tell him that no more birthdays are allowed in our house. my boys will not get that old).

E continues - and then i will have another birthday and i will be eight and then i get to take a bath with my dad.

Me - what?

E - I get to take a bath with my dad. . . in the water.

Me - (crying) oh you mean daddy will baptize you in the water so you can have the Holy Ghost.

E - Ya. what's the Holy Ghost? (another deep discussion begins).

I spent many nights during Eli's first 2 1/2 years of life wondering how I would be able to explain things to him. If he would understand the important things I wanted to teach him. I still worry about him. a lot. But I find time and time again that I don't give him enough credit. He understands much more that I think. He surprises me constantly.

I learned today that I am the one who needs to understand the important things he is trying to teach me.

I'm a lucky lady, that I get to be his mom.


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