Ah-men

Matty learnt to say 'AH-men' pretty early, especially when he figured food came after it. He started clasping his chubby little hands together, along with the ah-mens, faster than you could shovel porridge into his wide mouth. Today he and Ollie were playing at some game and Ollie said to him in an authoritative voice "You need scissors to cut that" or some random comment. Matty said enthusiastically "Ah-men". Who knows what that meant. Then when Steve was doing prayers with Ollie, Matty cruised around the room saying "Ah-men" at various points in time. I don't know how he knows we're praying. Or probably not, as demonstrated by the above example, he also says it in relation to non-prayer related sentences.

Ollie in his new red PJs and Matty in his Thomas ones, on the mattress before bedtime building towers with the blocks and Matty knocking it down and Ollie telling him not to. Ollie saying "Mummy, Mashew throwing blocks on the ground" and Matty throwing the blocks on the ground and giggling. It was hard not to laugh. This kid thinks its hilarious whenever something falls to the ground.

I've started reading My Little Blue Book with Ollie. We do the reading from the bible first, then read the associated story from the Blue Book. I came across it on Bookmooch and mooched it to have a look. I love it so much that I've mooched some other coloured books for later. The idea of reading the real bible to young children was one that I came across just recently. A blogger wrote that she read the bible to her newborn, her 2 year old and 4 year old, so I'm trying it out with Ollie. Would like to at least do it for the duration of the stories in this book. It is a lovely book about a set of twins who are preschool age. Their parents tell them these bible stories and apply it to their lives in a very simple way. I think it's pitched at Ollie's level. There is a short prayer at the end of each page. We've never had a devotional book, but I have flipped through a few at Koorong. This is the first one I've liked the look of. I particularly like the reference at the bottom of the page to the actual bible verses so we can read it.