Saturday, October 10, 2009

Need a new hobby

So, I guess gymnastics is not going to be a Rinewalt Family hobby...we have Easton in it right now and he is SO coordinated that we felt like this would be a good outlet for him to enjoy himself while getting some structured play as well. WELL--they have had to hire another teacher in the group of 4--as almost a one on one aide for Easton to keep him sitting down with the group. He is not doing anything awful--and he participates well when it is his turn...but then when he is supposed to be waiting his turn, he runs around like a chicken with his head cut off and the teachers cannot even catch him! We probably hear Easton's name over 100 times during each hour lesson--"Easton come back here", "Easton get off of that", "Easton, no sir"...so at this point-we are looking for another hobby for him. He can do all of the things the kids in the class are working on right now, so mastery of skills is not really an issue--but I want him to learn how to listen to random nonstructured teachers...because he does not have any issues like this at his little school, or obviously with me or Jason.

Any ideas about what we could put him in? We put Elle in Soccer Tots when she was this age, but it is now a bar in Tyler, so that is not an option...He will be 3 in December...

So many questions...

For over a year, Elle has been asking questions about life and death and why God allows people to die. We have had MANY a talk about how amazing God is and how we may never understand His plan--but that His Word tells us there always is one. She has worked through so many workbooks and Children Bibles that I can hardly count at this point...to help her to understand better just that Jesus came and died on the cross so that we don't have to...
Don't even get me started on the questions that came up when we started reading about the consequences of sin!! She was so concerned forever that if she talked back to me that the consequence just might be death...WOW!
She appears to really understand the ABC's at this point and to truly love the Lord. I feel like I spent a lot of time trying to convince her to wait and that maybe she wasn't ready to ask the Lord into her heart and then I realized--who is?? Do any of us know Him as well as we can or will? Aren't we all working towards a daily closer walk with God and it isn't like we do anything to deserve it!? I feel like this experience with Elle has really broken that down for me. So--she has asked Jesus to come and live in her heart and she is excited about it. We are being patient about scheduling her baptism and continuing to learn more and talk as much as we can about His love and how honestly it is all about what He did and daily does for her--not anything that she can do to earn His love--I just want her to GET THAT!
How great is it that we as parents get to watch as the Lord molds our children and actually comes into their heart?? Such an amazing gift! Thank you for that Lord!!