Prayer time with Gray

The boys have both really been into praying lately and last night, Gray was really cracking us up. We had read a little story about being obedient and I asked who wanted to pray that God would help us to obey. Gray volunteered and then launched into his regular prayer, which goes something like this:

Gray: Dear God (which sounds like Guide), Thank you for this nice time that we had tonight (it doesn't matter if it's day or night, but this is always the lead in) with Daddy and Mommy and Joshua and Gray and Baby Julia (this is an improvement from last week...he thanked God every day for our nice night with Amanda and Abby- who had already gone back home- and Carly and Jackson and Matt- who didn't even come) Amen.

Me: Gray, you were supposed to pray that God would help us to be obedient. Do you still want to pray?

Gray: Yes. (long pause as we get ready to pray again) Dear God, thank you for this nice time that we had tonight with Daddy and Mommy and Joshua and Gray and Baby Julia. Amen.

Me: Gray, what about praying that we would be obedient? I'm going to pray that if you don't want to.

Gray: No I'm going to pray. (another pause as we all close our eyes again) Dear God, thank you for this nice time that we had tonight with Daddy and Mommy and---

Well, you get the idea. Matt and I were just laughing at this point and Gray was looking at us like he didn't get the joke. Eventually he understood what he was supposed to pray and rattled off a quick "Dear God, help us obey, Amen." and we sent the boys to bed:)