Brayden has always been energetic, crazy, funny, and at times out of control. One thing he is not is moody, and ornery and sassy, that's Mckinley's job. That is until now!
I can't handle it, he is so bad some days that I feel like he spends the entire day in time out. I want my sweet little boy back! Brayden never had a care in the world, now he wants to pick out his own clothes, and when something isn't going his way he throws a nice little tantrum.
With the way that he has been acting these days I literally am counting down to bed time. With bed time comes scripture study and prayers, of course the kids fight over who gets to say the prayer every night. Brayden never waits for Mckinley to say it, he jumps in and starts saying his own prayer and let me just say, when he says the prayer it makes me realize I can make it through another day with him! He no longer needs help, because of course he can do it all by himself, and let's just say the "wit" comes back! Here are a couple samples:
After we took the kids to the Oquirrh temple open house:
"Heavenly Father thank you for this day, thankful for my dad, thankful for my mom, thankful for my big sissy, thankful for my baby sissy, thankful my baby sissy is still a baby so tiny and cute, thankful for my gpa's and gma's I love them so so much, thankful for the temple that we could go to and the diesel I saw on the way....."
Tonight Dale was gone so I did the bed time routine by myself, and this is the prayer we got tonight:
"Heavenly Father thank you for today, thank you that my dad could play paintball, thank you that my mom, and me, and my sisters could eat spaghetti and that I could protect them for my dad, thank you that Mckinley could make some money and sell some cookies and lemalade (lemonade)....
This isn't a prayer, but while we were grocery shopping today I asked Brayden if he would like some carrots,he said "no I don't love them, but I sure do love you mom" and gave me a big hug and kiss.
So it's times like these that make all the orneriness, and moodiness bearable. It shows me that my sweet boy is still in there and at times he is fighting to get out. I pray that someday he will re-join us for good, I can take the craziness much better than the other.
I love you Brayden, thank you for making everyday an adventure!!!