My funny little Doofus!!!

Background:

Way back when... many years ago, when Bill and I were engaged, we discussed names for our children. When I was a teenager, I had decided I wanted to name a daughter after my mother. Her name was Loraine Faith... I didn't at the time want to do the Faith, Hope, Charity type of names, but felt like Loraine was a big name for a little girl - as well as old fashioned... I came up with Rebekah Loraine and liked how it flowed, so that was my name. Bill's Grandfather had passed away the year before we got engaged, and he wanted to name a boy after him, so... William Joseph. I liked it, however I had one stipulation. There were already too many Bill, Billy, Williams in his family (3 generations), so I said we could call him Joseph. That was fine.

We had baby Joseph for many years... When Rebekah was young she'd draw him in pictures and tell people about him (when I wasn't even pregnant). We all waited for a LONG time for baby Joseph to come to our family.

Well, when I was pregnant the last time I thought of a new name, and asked my hubby how he liked Liam (from the WilLIAM part of the name). I was a bit surprised, but he liked it! We asked the girls, they all (pretty much) liked it. So... even though we didn't know who our baby was for sure (boy or girl), IF it was a boy, became Liam.

With the season and having pulled all the nativities out, I was trying to tell Liam who everyone was, or at least the main parts. The Holy family is Joseph, Mary and Baby Jesus. The other day he started saying Jofus. I tried to correct it to Joseph, but still - Jofus came out. I said it was a good thing we didn't call him that; he'd never be able to say his own name! :-) That being said, he actually calls himself "Neum", frequently.

So - more background:

We call people lots of silly little nic-names at our house! Manda Panda, Sariah Bobeskia, Hannah Banana, Rissa Roo. Or just simply silly girl or goofy boy, Crazy Mama, etc.

Goofy boy has become Goofus!

So after the Jofus discussion, it suddenly went from Jofus, to Goofus, to Dufus! YIKES!!! Now we have 'Dufus', Mary and Baby Jesus!

The other thing that happened related to the Nativity that happened this week was that I went to a visiting teaching brunch yesterday... Liam, after being dropped off at different peoples homes every day last week while I helped set up Nativities at the Christmas Festival, that he is VERY suspect when we get dressed (oh, by the way... we get up and get dressed nearly EVERY DAY!!!! - once in a while we are lazy and stay in jammies all day, but not often!). "I don't want to go!" "Don't Leave ME Mommy!", etc are some of teh things that start flying around. I reassured him we were going somewhere but that I was 'STAYING' with him, so not to worry. I said we were going to go play with Grace. We have a little friend named Calli Grace, and he said, Play with Calli Grace?!?!?! I said, no, baby Grace.

Well, he associates Baby as the first name appearantly of Baby Jesus currently, I guess, so he asked if we were going to play with Baby Jesus!?!

When Bill came home from work last night he asked Liam, "What did you do today?" He said he played with "Baby Jesus!"

I just LOVE the cute things Kids say!!!

I'm Thankful For Visiting Teaching

Yesterday my Visiting Teachers came. I have new V.T.'s, well, K was my VT back when we just started in 3rd Ward, so it was fun to have her back again. And C is my other 'new' VT. I really enjoyed getting to know her a little more. I enjoy visiting teaching as a fun way to get to know the other sisters in your ward. We talked about lots of things, and then C decided that the message she'd like to give was somethign different than what she had planned. She said that she and her mom had been talking recently and on the issue of trying to be a parent and to make everything FAIR, all the time for every child - if one child gets something or other, you then feel like you have to get an equal amount of something; be it Birthday presents, Christmas presents, etc... in order to be fair. As a mother I often fall into this, trying to 'be fair' to each child... and C's mom had this thought. God doesn't treat us like that. God gives us what we NEED when we NEED it. He doesn't try to give us what we want, or if one person has wealth or health or something else he certainly hasn't given that same thing to ALL of His children here on Earth, just to be FAIR. But that is better for us. And over all, it all works out in the end. So I'm going to try this approach a little bit more in my life. One child may NEED something (new glasses yesterday), and another child my also need new glasses, or want new glasses, but doesn't Need the same type of fancy glasses, and another day that child may need something else, and it will all work out for their good. I hope that I can remember this also as I go into the Holiday season... just because one child might get a certain # of items or $ amt. of items, doesn't mean I have to kill myself trying to make everythign for each child completely equal in # or $ just to be 'fair', so I end up getting something noone needs, or wants essentially. I'm going to try hard to do better. Wish me luck! Now to get reasdy for my day and my turn to go Visiting Teaching.