Video - Wyatt telling me about The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Alien robots

These are alien robots. The one with the colorful face is "the boss".

 

Wyatt's zebra.

On God

Take any negative feelings about Christianity out of it. Take the Bible out of it. Think of God as... the pulse of the universe. Not a HIM; not Jesus; not any relation to religions created by man. Strip everything created by man away from it.

Imagine yourself on top of a mountain. The temperature is perfect. You are alone, but can see around you for hundreds of miles. You can hear the bugs in the grass; can hear the whispering of the breeze through the pines. You can smell the grass and the pine trees and the hint of a campfire from somewhere down the road. You can see the reflection of the sun off cars on a road many many miles away from you. You can feel the vibration of the people in those cars; the vibration of the trees; the vibration of the sky, the earth, the road you came in on. In this one moment, you can feel your connection to all the people who stood here before; to all the animals peering at you from their hiding places; to all the people in all the houses and cars; to the sun and stars; to a person standing on a mountain on the opposite side of the planet thinking the same thing. You feel your place in the world - both simultaneously tiny and insignificant in the vast universe, and extremely important and with purpose in the world. Have you ever had a moment like that? Where you were just connected to everything? THAT'S GOD. God isn't what man has defined Him to be, and God isn't the evil people who have done harm in His name. God isn't pain and anger. God is beauty and love and light. God is that vibration, that connection. It's the force that created us and everything that is, whether you want to think of that force in scientific terms, as a benevolent man, or as something more existential and new age. I do not think the only reason God created us is to have a personal relationship with Him. But I think a personal relationship with Him adds a dimension to our lives that opens us further, makes us feel more fully, and makes us MORE than we are closed off to Him.

I do not think we are a by-product of random events. I think there is meaning and purpose to everything that happens to us. But I also believe in free will (which I understand is a bit of a paradox). I think there are certain lessons each of us is here to learn. I think that the people we are connected to and the people whose lives we touch are for a reason.

I think that the universe contains MUCH more than simply us, and that we are not capable of understanding all that is. We are simply ants in a yard, making assumptions about everything outside our yard based on what we see. Ants cannot fathom Paris or New York or the ocean. And we cannot fathom all there is in the universe. Not when it comes to matter. Not when it comes to the "supernatural". And not when it comes to God.

Not believing in Him doesn't stop Him from existing. And writing books and making up a bunch of rules doesn't change His nature. He is Love. He is Light. He is in each of us whether we want to believe it or not.

A cwate they put dead bodies in

Another Wyatt pic from today...
Me: "Wow, this is great, Wyatt! What is this?" (pointing to the large rectangle)
Wyatt: "It's a cwate."
Me: "A crate? Cool. What's in it?"
Wyatt: "It's a cwate they put dead bodies in."
Me: !!!!!! "A COFFIN?"
Wyatt: "Yes, a coffin."
Me: "Ohhhh.... and what are these?" (pointing to the little circles with lines coming out of them.)
Wyatt: "Them are spiders."
Of course they are!

But on another note, this is the first "real" sun Wyatt has drawn and he did a great job.

 

 And this one is a robot in the water with starfish.

Fact or Crap!

Weirdest thing ever. I was downstairs watching tv when I heard Wyatt cry out. I ran to the bottom of the stairs and looked up and he was at the top of the stairs crying. I said "Awww, what's wrong, sweetie?" and started climbing the steps to him. He then pulled down his underwear and proceeded to PEE DOWN THE STAIRS! I screamed "AIII! Why would you do that?" and he didn't look at me or answer, just kept crying. I took him back to his bed and laid him down and he instantly went back to sleep. I think he was sleep walking!

We just returned home from a nighttime scorpion hunt. We took UV flashlights into the desert and searched for scorpions (they glow bright green under UV light). In the hour we were out, we found about 20 of them, including one HUGE one, and one with only one pincher, which Wyatt named Pinchy.

Every night, I read three books to Wyatt, then ask "Should I sing to you?" He says yes, so I sing "Baby Don't You Cry" and "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star". It's been the same routine for several years. So last night, we read the books and I asked if I should sing to him. He nodded yes, and instead of starting "Baby Don't You Cry", I sang...
"At first I was afraid, I was petrified. Kept thinking I could never live without you by my side..."
And he CRACKED UP. Kept laughing and laughing. I finally calmed him down and sang the usual songs.
So tonight, we read books, and I asked if I should sing. He nodded. And I started singing "Baby Don't You Cry."
And he said "NO!" The other one!" So I sang "I Will Survive" before the usual two songs. I hope this doesn't become a new thing. LOL
Oh the other thing is when I sang "Baby Don't You Cry", he sang the whole song WITH me, which he has never done. I was fighting back tears, it was so adorable.

When shopping for a board game, Wyatt really thought it was funny that there is a game called "Fact or Crap". So - I am in a habit of saying "Fact!" when someone says something I agree with. Now every time I say it around Wyatt, he responds with "Crap!" And then we both laugh. I am sure strangers think something is wrong with us. 

40 drops

Me: "There's a 40% chance of rain."
Wyatt: "Does that mean there are gonna be 40 drops?"

 

Me: "♪ ♫ You know I can't smile without you ♪ ♫
♪ ♫ I can't smile without you ♪ ♫
♪ ♫ I can't laugh and I can't sing -"
Wyatt: "STOP!"
Me: "What?"
Wyatt: "You said you can't sing, so stop!"

  Me: "Hey Wyatt, when we go to Texas, Uncle Roger  is gonna take us fishing. He has a white boat."
Wyatt: "A white boat? Not even red? That's so boring!!!"

Wyatt: "I wish we had a buffet in our house." "Wyatt: "Hey Mommy, when I was in your belly.... what if you ate something I didn't yike?"
Me: "I don't think there was anything you didn't like."
Wyatt: (pondering, then scowling) "Did I yike burritos?"
LOL"

Rhymes with Orange

Me: "When you were in my belly, if you were quiet and I wanted to make sure you were ok, I'd just drink some Dr. Pepper, and you'd go like this!" (flailing arms and jumping up and down)
Wyatt: (giggle! giggle!) "Ohhhhh yeh, I remember that!"
♥

Wyatt: "Hey Mommy. You say somefing, and I will say somefing that rhymes wif it."
Me: "Ok... Orange! Hahahahha.... nothing rhymes with orange!"
Wyatt: "Yuh-huh. Worange."
Me: "Hahah... but worange isn't a word."
Wyatt: "So? It rhymes."

Last night while I was trying to get Wyatt to sleep, he kept waking back up to talk about The Wizard of Oz, which they apparently watched at school.
"Mom, what's that girl's name again?" "Dorothy. Go to sleep."
"Are her shoes magic?" "Yes. Go to sleep."
"Hey Mommy... are her shoes shiny?" "Yes, they are ruby slippers. Go to sleep."
"That metal guy kept falling over." "Yes, he's the Tin Man. Go to sleep."
"Do witches have big noses?" "Yes, usually. Go to sleep."