Farewells

Every morning the little boys and I watch from the front door windows while the kids get on the bus.  First Maddie and Isabelle get picked up by a bus, and half an hour later, Kami and Caden's bus comes.  We watch at the window as each bus comes, and we always say, "goodbye kids!  We love you! Have a good day at school!" (we're a little compulsive that we have to do this and say the same thing every day) We say this as the kids get onto the bus, even though they can't hear us.  The little boys love this, and, if for some reason Nolan is off playing when the bus comes and he hears Abram and I saying the goodbyes, he comes running in a panic.  By then the bus has usually started on, so he knows to run to the dining room window so that he can catch the tail end of it.

This morning this happened, and he had to repeat the goodbyes out loud to himself, plus he added on some of his own admonitions. "Don't be a pout- baby at school! Keep the commandments and do what is right!! Always follow Jesus!" he chanted, and then as the bus drove around the corner and out of sight he contentedly left the window and resumed his "cowboy"game.