bedtime story lessons

Our special church service ran a bit long tonight (but was SO wonderful!), and I glanced at my watch on our way to get Dennis from the children's class. They'd had him nearly two hours! I wondered how the volunteer teachers were holding up (rain = no playground time) and as I passed the 2 year old nursery, a worker called out "are they finished yet?". She looked a bit frantic. We walked into Dennis' class to see a kid in Time Out (thankfully not ours), but everyone was otherwise happy. I asked Dennis what they did and he told me about children in Mongolia who don't have enough to eat. (They are learning about missionaries this week). He said "and then we played Quiet Mouse", and David and I had to laugh! It must have gotten wild in there for a game of Quiet Mouse to be instituted. He told me later that they also played Simon Says and he really liked it.

Tonight we told him to get ready for bed and we'd read him a bedtime story as usual. He told us he was going to read to us instead. He dragged his Cracker Barrel rocking chair over to face our chairs and then said "I'll need my reading glasses and then I can read you a story." I fetched his new sunglasses, the ones that look like real glasses with flip-up lenses (bought to keep him from swiping and wearing our eyeglasses). He put them on, announced he could see better, cleared his throat, then actually read us a book (one of his short BOB books). We thanked him profusely. Then we had to read to him about the human body (like we did last night) again, so we talked about his skeleton and bones. He is so interested in this subject, and the book I ordered for him about it will be in this week! Last night we talked about everything: bones, skin, muscles, lungs and breathing, blood, ears and hearing, digestive tract, eyes, brain, kidneys and intestines, and he took in every word. I also think he took in how long we spent going over it all in the kids' encyclopedia and how many pages were involved. He saw a big opportunity to delay tonight's bedtime by asking to hear it again! It's hard to stop for bedtime when he's so eager to learn (and he knows we feel this way!).