A Gentle and Quiet Spirit

SWEET MEMORIES …..

This morning I was reminded of something Marke used to do when he was about 3. He had us all totally baffled because he would run around playing and wherever he went he would shout “HIMBEYAAM!!!!” We tried for months to figure out what he was saying but eventually we just left it. When I was at my parents house they would ask what Marke was shouting, but I couldn’t tell them.
One day in the December holidays I was at home with the boys and we rented a whole bunch of movies to watch through the holiday, one of them was "Toy Story" and the one character Buzz Light Year says – “To Infinity, An Beyond!!” before flying. And then I clicked – Marke was shouting “And Beyond!!!” from the movie. I had such a good giggle at him and I was finally able to tell everyone what he was saying.
Now Sean often gets things wrong, and we often have a giggle at him. I remember when we watched Spiderman, the first one, and the part where Peter Parker discovers his powers and that he can shoot webs from his wrist and while trying to figure out how to do this he flicks his wrist and says “Up and away web!”, after the movie Sean was of course Spiderman all over the place and he flicked his wrist and said “uppellapieweb”. It was very funny.
And when Sean was small I was trying to teach him the difference between sniffing and blowing his nose because whenever I asked him to blow he would sniff and vise versa. And one day after watching the movie “In the Army” I was singing that song “John, Jacob, Jingleheimer Schmidt, that’s my name too…” to Sean and when I said "Schmidt" – he sniffed with all his might! I had to share this with someone so I called my mother, we were visiting there when this happened, to show her what he was doing and we sang the song to him together and every time we would get to Schmidt, Sean would sniff! “John, Jacob Jinglehiemer Sniff..." – is what he must have been hearing. It was hysterically funny. Poor kid must have thought we were mad.