We were having the missionaries from our church over for dinner again this evening and Ethan had been waiting for them to arrive all day long. Ethan had bought a new spy kit book from his school book fair and he was just dying to show it to them. Every thirty minutes or so he would tell me about how he was going to show them all the cool things in the book. Then, just 15 minutes before they arrived the book went missing. I was able to make a deal with him that if he worked on cleaning up, I would work on looking for it. Fortunately, the house got cleaned and the book found just moments before they knocked on the door.
The missionaries came upstairs and sat on the couch and right as Ethan (6) opened his mouth, Julia jumped in and started showing the books that she had bought. Instead of complaining or trying to talk over her, he patiently waited with his book in hand until she was done. But then, Christian was sitting right next to them. Ethan, very politely asked Christian if he could scoot over so he could show the book to the missionaries. I thought about calling them all in for dinner right at that second to really test Ethan, but figured that would be a little too much. Ethan was able to show them all about the secret messages he could write with his invisible ink and the fun spy activities that were described throughout the book.
Ethan is my superhero today for waiting patiently to share his new book with the missionaries.
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