any given day with a 4 year old is not the same as the last.
tonight eli asked me questions about heaven that brought me to tears. he is getting so smart and his little mind wants to know so many details. . .and i'm forced to tell him things that i'm not even sure what i'm saying until it's already out of my mouth.
tonight, we were thanking jesus before bed. i had to re-explain ... jesus, like i do every night. he just doesn't understand. i told him he was in heaven, with grandpa bill, on a cloud that feels a lot like eli's most favorite "na-na" (blanket). they can hear us praying and watch us playing with our cars and trucks. " they can see through our roof"??? he asks. "what happens when planes fly through their cloud??"
that continued to why did grandpa bill go to heaven, when will he be back, why is he staying so long, did he take his house to heaven?
all legitimate questions, all questions he has asked before. . . but tonight i must have answered slightly differently, and i used the word death, and he looked at me in shock, and asked "grandpa bill died??" i'm sure i confused him even more with my tears and my semi-thought out answers to those questions that NO ONE really knows the answers to for sure.
and as soon as i think we are in this deep serious conversation, and i am teaching him deep meaningful life lessons, he informs me that he tooted under the covers. :) and just like that, the conversation is switched to zoombeezi bay for tomorrow.
i think i may let the catholic preschool teacher take over heaven talk starting next week!
and the following is just little boy cuteness ...
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