Peder Eide

Last weekend our church had Peder Eide come to perform. He is a Christian musician and he led our services on Saturday night and Sunday morning. Also, on Saturday evening he gave a concert. What he did on Sunday was called Taste Worship. It was an amazing experience for our family. He talked about how your family experiences worship as a family. Our kids got actively involved and really enjoyed singing the music, praying together, and for each other. At one point he even had the kids put their hands on their parents and pray for them. (also reminding the parents to keep their hands to themselves, not so easy for me.) And then switch and parents pray for the kids. It was such an emotional moment. Both Mark and I got choked up. Well, I have to be honest Mark got choked up and I sobbed. Big surprise there.





The most amazing part for me was Dylan, now you all know Dylan is not the easiest child, and sometimes I wonder if we're reaching him. Well now I know the answer is a huge YES! So, Peder passed out these cards and asked us to do a project 2. Usually he recomends a project 10 or 20, but for time sake he had us do only 2. And those were affirmations about one person in your family. At the begining of the service we were each handed a card with 2 big ii's and that was for our affirmations. Now to Dylan, at the begining of the service he kept complaining that "the guy" was too loud, the music was too loud and my favorite sunday refrain, "is it over yet?" But when Peder put the picture of the card up and asked us all to fill it in starting with I love you ... and finish with 2 things you love about that person. I knew Mark, Alex, and I would do it, but I figured that Dylan was too young to get it. So, I looked to Alex, and I started writing. Then I looked over at Dylan and he was writing "I love you Alex" copying right off the screen. Mind you I didn't even know he could write I love you, or that he would follow along and get that he was supposed to finish with a family member. And then there's the brother thing. He needed help with the next part, but boy did he get the point. A serious wow moment for me.



Many more tears were shed by mom. And the realization that he's getting it makes me cry as I'm writing this.

What an amazing boy, and what an amazing worship. Oh, and did you catch what is in the space between the i's.
Both boys came home with a Peder Eide CD and listen to it frequently, especially at bedtime.

What a truly amazing musician, witness, pastor Peder was. I learned from him and the music really touches my soul.

If you'd like to learn more about Peder and Taste Worship click here and you can read his web page.

Crazy Hair Day!

Today is crazy hair day! With short hair the best we can do is blue hair paint. Of course that also means that I get to drive them to school since it's raining out and it's not waterproof hair paint.

Big Changes!

Oh my goodness, Dylan is really becoming a big kid. I'm so proud of him. He's learning to cope with his sensory issues without a fuss. Early this week he was making his bed in the dark and I asked if he wanted the light on. He said yes so I turned it on. He immediately squeezed his eyes shut and I was just waiting for the hissy fit to start. You know the normal reaction. I asked if he wanted the light back off and he said, "It's ok. I"ll get used to it."

I'll get used to it!!!! Really, I'll get used to it. I was totally blown away. He's never not freaked out when the light came on. What a huge step forward.

My other big story about Dylan is another, wow he's growing up moment. It starts with missing sweat pants. I make sure he always has 3 pairs of sweatpants so I don't have to do laundry every other day if I don't want to. Well, a couple weeks ago one of his new pairs of sweatpants went missing. I was going crazy trying to figure out what the heck happened to those sweat pants. Then one day he came home from school wearing his old sweats with the big holes in the knees. I knew I didn't remember him wearing them to school in the morning, but figured I just hadn't looked that closely. So, I pitched the old sweats that night and kept looking for his other new pair.

Now, Wednesday he comes home from school wearing the missing sweatpants. Boy was I confused. When I asked him where they came from he said, "my backpack". What?! And he tells me he had another accident at school and changed pants. I"m thinking another accident, when was the first?

It turns out that he had an accident a couple of weeks ago, changed into his old sweats from his backpack. Then, when he got home he put the wet pants in the laundry and put a new pair of sweats in the ziplock in his backpack. I"m thinking, ooohhh so that's wear the missing sweats were hiding.

I was so blown away that he thought to put new clothes in his bag all by himself. He is growing up so fast.

Nibbles?

Lately it seems that I always have a funny story to tell on Dylan. Here's just the latest.

On Tuesday Dylan was home sick. He got sick a couple of times Monday night, so had to stay home. OUr rule for staying home is, no playing period. It doesn't matter if you feel better, stay home from school and you are confined to the couch or bed.

So, while he was watching cartoons on the couch Kayla came to sit with him. While he was sitting there loving on her. All of a sudden he said EWWW! Kayla has Nibbles on her belly. After I explained that her "nibbles" are how baby kitties get milk from momma kitty. He asked if we could get milk from Kayla's nibbles. At this point it was all I could do not to bust out laughing hysterically. So I said no I didn't think we could get milk from Kayla.

He thought about that for a minute, pulled up his shirt to look at his chest, and looked at me and asked if Tucker had nibbles. At that I couldn't help laughing, and told him that I wasn't sure about whether Tucker had nibbles, but that I wasn't going to look and find out. I suggested that he could look and find out, but he didn't like that idea either. (Those of you that know Tucker, know that he would NOT take kindly to us checking for nibbles.)

I know it's not nice to laugh at your kids, but this was too funny not to share.