Enjoying my kids

I have given myself a challenge recently to just enjoy my kids. I mean I know we all hear it again and again. "enjoy them while they are little because they grow up before you know it" It's fine to hear it but actually doing it is where I find the challenge. Not that I don't love or like my kids. It's just that I get so wrapped up in getting things done (and often keeping the kids alive) that I find it difficult to just play with them and ignore the giant mess in the other room. Out of sight out of mind does not apply to me. I can tell you at any given moment which room(s) in my house are messy and what steps I need to take to get in back in order...(ocd much? Yes, but not enough to keep it all in order. It's a vicious cycle) I have learned that I can either have fun with my kids or have a clean house. It would be great if I could have both but it just doesn't happen here. (Judge away I know I'm not perfect)

So now you get to hear (read?) how great my kids are.
Logan loves everybody. He really loves Jesus and loves the bible (he has 2 verses memorized and loves to recite them) He prays all the time for a little sister. He even has names picked out for the sister that he is praying for. One day he was fighting with Timothy and I told him maybe we shouldn't have anymore brothers or sisters if he couldn't love the one he has. He cried for a long time while I tried to explain to him the principle of being faithful with a little and God will give you a lot. The next day (and ever since then actually) he was so sweet to his brother. When we picked him (timothy) up from sunday school Logan said "hey T! did you have a good time? and gave him a big hug. It melted my heart. He loves Thomas the train and super heroes. He loves gifts and will be very thankful when we give him a gift, even clothing. When he puts on clothes he asks me who gave him his shirt etc... once I tell him he remembers forever and mentions it every time he wears the item. He is my sweet heart. He is so excited to go to Peru and is really interested in Spanish. He constantly asks me how to say certain words in spanish. When we move there we plan to get a dog and he pretends to have a dog now so he can practice. (guess who's dog it will be?) When he grows up he wants to be a dad. We told him he has to get married first so he is currently on the search for a wife.

Timothy thinks a lot. He is the child that every day I think he will grow up to be something different. Most of the time I think he will be an engineer or something to do with electronics because the boy can figure out how to work anything he wants to. (even Logan asks him for help with turning things on and stuff like that) Other times I think he will grow up to be a worship leader. One night Jose was at a campout and T got in bed with me at 4am. He couldn't sleep and started singing "Yo Te Busco" (A spanish worship song) very loudly. His favorite part of movies is the credits because he likes to dance and watch the words. He can't read (that I know of ;-) but he will look through books with words and no pictures as if he is reading every word. In fact books are his favorite toy. He loves to look at books and for me or Jose to read to him. He thinks Logan is the most amazing person in the world. If I want him to do something all it takes usually is for me to get Logan to do it. T will do everything he can to be like Logan. He's usually shy around new people or in unusual situations but once he's comfortable you better be ready he will talk your ear off and sing at the top of his lungs the whole time. He's not usually cuddly, but when he is it's the best! He's not exactly like me but I see a lot of myself in him.

I thank God for my children they teach me so much everyday. They are amazing and I'm humbled that God trusted me with such special little people. I pray I will always be everything they need me to be and where I fail I pray that God will fill in the gaps for them. Pray for me ya'll I've got a big job ahead of me