Amen!

Garrett prayed his first "real" prayer tonight. By real, I mean containing actual words. In the past he would jabber and then say "Amen" really loud and laugh like he had just said the funniest thing. But tonight as we were mid-supper, he looked at Keith and said "Pray!". Now, we had already blessed our meal, so don't worry that he was reminding the heathens of something they had forgotten. He held his hands out to us and we grabbed on. He then proceded to say "Pancake (mumble, mumble), Daddy, Garrett, Brennan, Avey, Dew. Amen!" We were having pancakes for supper so I'm assuming he was thanking God for the pancakes with his first word choice. I'm also happy to hear him praying for his list of people, though a little perturbed that I wasn't included. Momma needs prayers the most! :) Brennan, Avery (Avey), and Drew (Dew) are all friends of his who have come over periodically or he has been to their houses. I thought it was very cute that he included them in his prayer. Bad mommy that I am, we've never actually sat down and prayed for other people outside our family (with Garrett, I promise I'm not quite so self-centered in my own prayer life), so we were really surprised to hear him actually list his friends in his prayer.

It definitely lifts my spirits to see my child displaying what he's learned from us. We've never once asked or told him to pray, but we always do it at every meal and he's just picked up on that and had a desire to participate.

I pray that will continue.