Heaven and Earth

Me, Eden, Leila, and Molly were all driving in the car.  It was quiet for a moment and Eden was pondering.

Eden:  "Mom. I think Heaven is right here on the Earth."

Mom:  "Yeah?  Why do you think that?"

Eden:  "I don't know.  I just thought that."

Later on....

Mom:  "Remember how you told me about Heaven being on Earth?

Eden:  "Yeah!  Its like God painted over Heaven to look like the Earth!"

Mom:  "Well, I think you should trust your thoughts and feelings."

Eden created a beautiful picture in my mind.  She is one smart cookie.

Helping

I was getting extremely frustrated with Leila and losing my temper. I decided to go to my room and say a prayer.

Leila came in and saw me.

Leila: "Why are you praying?"
Me: "Because I need help."
Leila: "That's silly. Mom's don't need help."
Me: "Yes. Sometimes mom's even need help."
Leila: "Oh. Ok. I'll help you....say Dear Heavenly Father..."

And she then continued to help me say my prayer.

Underwear

Eden has a pair of undies that she thinks are SO beautiful.  They are white with lace and a little bow in front.  The other day she wanted to wear them.  Where she exclaimed,

"Mom, these panties so beautiful.

They are white and clean!

I think they represent the Spirit of God."

Garden of Faith

During church I will often have Eden sit on my lap and I'll play with her arm pretending its a garden (planting seeds, sun, rain, etc.) It gets Eden to sit still during sacrament for a while.

A while back we had a lesson on faith and how its like a seed. For part of it we had her "pull out weeds" and name different things that could be weeds in our lives like disobedience and lying and not being nice to everyone.

Today I was doing the garden on her arm and in the middle she said, "Wait, we didn't weed the garden!" So, we weeded the garden and she named off "weeds" in our lives (she would say things like "not doing dishes...that's a mommy weed...not sharing...that's an Eden weed...").

After doing a vegetable garden and flower garden on her arm, Eden said that she wanted the next garden to be a garden of faith.

So, I planted a little garden of faith on her arm.

Don't Cry

(Leila starts to cry.)

Eden (in a comforting voice): "Leila, don't cry. We live in the Plan of Happiness!"

Family Home Evening Song

Eden LOVES family home evening.

Last week we talked about the Plan of Salvation and she's been talking about it ever since.

This week we talked about the gospel and how to get to the Celestial Kingdom.

At the end of family home evening she said,

"I want to sing a song now."

Since it was technically still FHE time, we said, as long as it was a church song, it was OK.

Eden stood in front of everyone and sang (to the tune of "the more we work together")

"I'm going to the temple.

I'm going to the temple.

I'm going to the temple.

I'm going to marry a man

and go to the Celestial Kingdom.

And I'll be baptized and have faith."

It was a beautiful song.

The Celestial Kingdom

Our last FHE we had a talk on the Plan of Salvation.

When general conference came on today, Eden heard, "The Celestial Kingdom" she responded,

"Mom!! That's where WE'RE going!"

Nursery

Eden brought home a paper fish attached to a string....

Grandpa: "Eden, what is that?"

Eden: "A fish!"

Grandpa: "Why do you have a fish?"

Eden: "To go fishing."

Grandpa: "Did you learn a story about fishing today?"

Eden: "Yeah. Cause we learned about Jesus."

Grandpa: "What was the story?"

Eden: "People were fishing and they didn't catch any fish and then they saw Jesus and said, 'We didn't catch any fish!' and he said to go fishing again. Then they caught LOTS of fish and the net almost BROKE!"

(Silence)

Mom: "Then what did Jesus say?"

Eden: "He said, 'WOAH! That's a lot of fish!"

(Laughing)

Mom: "Did he say to follow him and become fishers of men?"

Eden: "Oh yeah. And then they became his apostles."

A Perfect Body

Eden was pretending to die, then come back alive.

This brought on a little conversation between us about the resurrection.

I explained that when we die our bodies change and become perfect....so on and so forth.

After I was done Eden got excited and exclaimed,

"When I die, I'm going to be DARK PURPLE!"

Questions and Answers

I got a jar of "getting-to-know-you" type questions as a gift. As soon as Eden saw the jar, she wanted to open it. I opened it and asked to ask her questions.

Mom: "What is your favorite color?"

Eden: "Umm...blue." (although I believe its dark purple)

Mom: "What is the messiest place in your house?"

Eden: "We need to clean the kitchen."

Mom: "What's your favorite household chore?"

Eden: "Mopping the floor."

Mom: "What is the best gift you've received and why was it so important?"

Eden: "Jesus, cause he helps our bodies."

She never ceases to amaze me.

I think I'm gonna try to get out this jar and ask her a few questions once a week and write her responses on this blog.

President Monson

(Eden puts on dad's suit coat)

(Picks up my phone and holds it to her mouth)

"I'm President Monson.

Thou should not steal.

And you guys need to get married."

I see she listened during conference.

Lego Role Play

Most of the time when we play LEGOS, Eden has me build a "doctor's office"...today after playing doctor she thought of a new idea....

Pooh played by Eden. Piglet played by mom.

Pooh: "Piglet, come in the door."

(Enters Piglet.)

Pooh: "I'm King Pooh sitting on a throne."

Piglet: "Hi King. What would you like me to do for you?"

Pooh: "Go and do as the Lord hath commanded."

Piglet: "Oh, what did he command me to do?"

Pooh: "He commanded you to go clean your room."

Later...

(Piglet enters.)

Piglet: "King, my people need more food. Can you help us?"

Pooh: "Oh yes, I can help you."

Piglet: "Thanks, what should I do?"

Pooh: "Go to Foods Festival (local grocery store here)."

Piglet: "Oh, OK."

Pooh: "And close the door when you leave so flies don't come in."

Quoting Scripture

Eden loves to pretend to be people. One (at times problematic) person she likes to pretend to be is Jesus.

The other day she said to me,

"Mommy, I'm Jesus and I'm coming to Earth."

(Walks up to me)

"Suffer the little children to come unto me."

She's quoting scriptures better than I can...

Abinadi

Thanks to Abinadi....

Whenever Eden pretends to "tie me up and take me to prison/jail" she'll end with "and burn you in a fire!"

Jesus

Eden put her blanket around her and said,

"I'm wearing a robe! I'm Jesus!"

Then she walked around the room singing....

"I'm trying to be like Jesus..."

.....taking the song a little TOO literally...

Child of God

Lately we've been listening to the Children's Song Book in the car.

I switched CDs and when "I Am a Child of God" came on she yelled,

"Hey! That's MY song!"

A while later...

Eden: "Dad, are you a child of God too?"

Dad: "Yes I am."

Eden: "Oh! So, you're a BOY one!"

Blessings

Mom: "Who wants to bless the food?"

Eden: "I do! I want to bless the food cause I am the Priesthood."

Washing Dishes

One of Eden's new favorite things....when I'm doing dishes she wants to "help". She'll pull up a chair next to me and take a scrubber, then basically play with water and few dishes.

Today while playing she was transferring water from one cup to a bowl and she said,

"I'm trying to be like Jesus.

I'm turning water into wine."

Heaven

(Eden talking to mom)

"Remember when I was in Heaven?

When I was in Heaven, I was a spirit.

I was in Heaven's belly.

Then I came to mommy's belly!

Then I was born."

Monster Apples and Mummy Dogs

Today Eden and I made a "Halloween lunch". We made monster apples (cut out a mouth, filled with peanut butter, added marshmallow teeth, raisin eyes, and coconut hair) and mummy dogs (hot dogs wrapped in strips of croissant rolls).

When she saw the mummy dogs come out of the oven I pretend to have it "walk" to her plate. She laughed and said,

"Lazarus is not dead anymore!"