Jaxon Says...

1. Jaxon has decided that every nightly prayer should include some Spanish. The only problem, he doesn't know Spanish! So sometimes he will say one "sentence" in nonsense, or sometimes he will whisper to Dave "How do you say ______ in Spanish?" Dave will help him, but let's be honest...it still sounds like nonsense!

Jaxon has a real problem with tattling on Dave to me. Somehow he got in his head that I am the "Big Boss" and Daddy is next in line. So frequently during the day Dave will tell him something and he will say, "Mom! Is that true?" or Dave will ask him to do something and Jax will say, "Mom! Do I have to do that?" he knows he gets in trouble for telling on Dave to me, so it is slowing down....but he just can't seem to stop.
Well, last night before prayer, Dave was teasing Jaxon about something, and J didn't like it. Jaxon turned to tattle on Dave and I was giving him "the look." He knew I wouldn't listen to tattling about joking around and that I would say he needed to tell Dave if he didn't like it, so he thought for a second and said, "Mom, Daddy just made fun of the prophets! He called them a "slock" and said he didn't want to follow them!"
While we did have to have a talk about lying, Dave and I were trying not to let him see us laugh. Lying aside, I guess we are doing something right when he thinks the best way to get someone in trouble is to say that they don't love the prophet!

3. Jaxon has his first talk today. I am really excited, and I think he is too. We wrote his talk and then recorded my voice saying it on the computer. We listened to it several times a day so he could start memorizing it, and when he was pretty good, we started using pictures from the Gospel library to help him remember. I show a picture and he remembers what he is supposed to say. It is the cutest thing ever, and I hope that he doesn't get any stage fright today. I would love for him to be able to say most of his talk by looking at the pictures we are showing, and with very little whispering in his ear from me. My favorite part though, is at the end. He just was supposed to say that he loves Heavenly Father and Jesus, but he ad-libs every time. It's like the beginning of his little testimony coming through. He says something a little different every time, but it's usually about a warm feeling, or choosing the right! He also ad-libs a little about Joseph Smith. It's pretty funny because he just tries to through in as many "gospel" words as possible and sometimes he veers a little from the actual truth!
...I will let you know how it goes!