Little helpers.

TMac was so excited about the job jar he received in his Sunbeam class today at church. It has job cards with ideas for how little kids can help at home. Once they do they can have a candy. I know that I need to let him do more and I'm not a control freak, I'm just lazy and don't always want to take the time to let him do things. He asked for jobs a few times and I asked him to wait until after I got dinner served. This evening in the backyard he happily cleared all of the leaves and weird tree nut things from the 5 chairs by the pool which was actually hard because the chairs are made of little diamond shaped metal pieces that the tree junk gets stuck in. It was so cute to watch him be so happy to be doing a job. I love how easy it is for little ones to want to follow the lessons from Primary. Tracy made smoothies tonight and when he brought the pitcher and cups to the living room TMac wanted to help set the table which is one of the job cards. He's sweet. He got a new Sunbeam teacher last week and he likes her and says that she is pretty.

Tot heard me tell TMac to say cheese so he came running in pushing his toy and was yelling cheese. Then he kept on doing it and throwing his hands in the air.

Tot had his own little helping session at Winco yesterday. He decided it was his job to lift the little cantaloupes out of the cart and onto the checkout stand. He would not let me help him and he was grunting and lifting away. He was really entertaining the people behind us in line. He lifted out 5 cantaloupes!

CHEESE! Ooh, I just thought of a job! We're getting ready for bed right now and Tot had dropped a bunch of toys in his bed today so I caught myself just now before unloading them myself and TMac is doing the job as I type. This will be good for me and T both. Thank you Sister H! TMac has always been a naturally helpful boy but it is fun to have him asking for jobs and saying, "How can I help?"