Praying Works, Ask Landon....

Here's another one of those stories that you just want to keep in you back pocket for a smile when you need it. I hope that I can write it so that you capture the cuteness of my little boy. So here I go....Me and Bobby have been trying to talk to Landon each day about his timeouts at school. At first Landon would come home day after day with no timeouts until Mommy caught on to the same pattern. I pulled the old, "I'm gonna ask your teacher tomorrow" and suddenly the truth came out, not in words, but all over his face. Immediately I knew that these "no timeouts" were no longer the truth. Now I had to approach this differently. We had the talk that it was OK to tell Momma and Daddy the truth about his timeouts and that we would talk about each timeout when they came. Most of all it was important to tell the truth! Wow did that change things. Now 0 timeouts changed to 2 today, 3 today, and sometimes even 4 today! Once again we had to approach this differently because we can't have our child driving the teacher crazy by getting timeouts everyday. So Daddy had a talk with Landon about his timeouts and we decided that we would talk about the timeouts and if he got two timeouts or more then he would get a punishment. Landon thought about this really hard and decided that we needed to pray for him every morning. He specifically said that we needed to pray that Jesus would help him not to get in timeout. So Me and Bobby began to pray with Landon either together with Landon before we left the house or right before we got out of the car in the morning. Last week we forgot to pray before we left the house and when we got out of the car. I was in my car ready to leave and I looked up to see Landon waving goodbye and I could read his lips, "You forgot to pray for me." I stopped in my car and put my hands together and said a little prayer for Landon. He started smiling and he said, "Did you pray for me?" I gave him a thumbs up and he went about playing. He amazes me everyday (God and Landon)