Benjamin the Sage

We have the funniest five-year old on the planet! He is always talking my ear off about random things and I LOVE to listen to him-- The way he puts ideas together and comes up with such creative ways of fixing something or making something better, the way he offers such wisdom to his sisters or I, the way he can jump from making a rabbit trap to thoughts about his future wife-- this kid cracks me up continuously.
A few days ago, he brought up his future wife. I soon found out her most endearing quality in his eyes would be that she would laugh at the funny things he said. He told me, "and the best thing about her, she will laugh at my words." (Isn't that all why we married who we did, because at some point they laughed at the right time at something we said and it made us just know they were THE ONE for us? :)

Yesterday Benjamin was in the kitchen talking to me while I did the dishes. Our time together went something like this:

Benjamin plays with the toaster oven and takes the grill out and begins telling me how he could use that part of the toaster oven for his rabbit trap.

When he is done with that he comes over and starts rubbing my back and tells me what a good Mommy I am; "Mommy, you are the most special Mommy ever!" (melt my heart please!)

Then he goes through the knife drawer (this kid has a fascination with sharp objects) and starts explaining to me what he could cut with each knife-- a tree branch, a steak, make into a spear, etc. When he comes to the Whet Stone in the back he says, "what's this?" I explain to him it is a Whet Stone and that it is used to sharpen knives. So then he asks me, "So is that called Whetting the knives?" ......hmmmmmm........he had me on that one!

So then he moves on to his future wife. He wants her to look like me (melt, melt again) but be from the Philippines. He is fascinated with the Philippines since we pray for our pastor from S.A. who goes there several times a year to help out the missionaries there.

And from there we move on to the hog he wants to catch, the rabbit trap again, and finally he asks me if I think God will let him go into someone's heart with Him after he gets to heaven!

I love this kid!