1/15/2008

Putting the Oldest to Bed

I was reminded last night by Dear Sir of the cute but strange little things the Oldest has said in his short past (he is nearly 12). Last night the Oldest approached our bed (where we read a lot) to pray and hug us good night.

"He's coming to die, he's coming to die, he's coming to die," chimed Dear Sir.

"What are you saying?!" the Oldest laughed awkwardly, hands folded, ready to pray.

"You used to say that when you were little. We had no idea what you were talking about."

(I remembered at that moment, a semi-petrified little boy with tears in his eyes holding up a picture to show me. It had many scribbles, some red, and I think the depiction of a person under the scribbles. "He's coming to die!" said the boy with a quiver, "He's coming to die!" I think he meant Jesus, but I wasn't sure.)

"Santa Claus is coming to DIE!" Dear Sir sang.

"WHAT?!" piped the Oldest with a laugh, highly amused, but perplexed.

"You used to sing that too," said Dear Sir.

"That sounds kind of cute, but kind of weird," said the Oldest, still folding his hands with a smile. I noticed how nice of a smile he has now. I couldn't believe how enormous he looked.

"A doo-doo bah, aaaaahhhhh da woosie!" sang Dear Sir, torturing the boy with the familiar bathtub song the Oldest made up when he was extremely little, well before he could speak much.

"DAD.....!"

We laughed at him a good bit.

"Let's pray," said Dad.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

We call Leah "dick-i-day" because she used to run around the house screaming that. She doesn't remember doing that, but everyone else does...

Gen said...

It's part of what bonds a family, that language formed by the shared memories. I love that. We love to remember the things our kids used to say too. Makes for good dinner conversation and when our kids start dating we'll torture them with it.

Mrs. Sinta said...

Our oldest is huge too. They do that.

Anonymous said...

Sister,

I am really unsure as to why, but I cannot e-mail you directly. I am getting an error message claiming my Out-Mail Server is restricting outgoing access to your e-mail. I am looking into the problem with my IT guy, so I am not ignoring you, I can't get through.

Sorry,

Love you

Jason

R said...

Jason,

Thanks for the heads up!! Hopefully it gets worked out! Let me know if there is anything I need to do to help. :)

R.

Dapoppins said...

I was just tearing up last night about how fast they grow up!

Leslee said...

Pray that you never forget to remember the cute things they say and do!

That Janie Girl said...

That is too cute!

R said...

Thank you, Janie!