Marion just came in and was telling me an amazing story about our little farmer - Nathan!
Nathan has been VERY interested in doing anything and everything he can with Daddy. He wants to carry pliers like Daddy, he wants to wear boots like Daddy, he wants to drive tractors like Daddy. Just about anything Daddy does...Nathan wants to be there! One day last week Nathan was in little boy heaven when Daddy agreed to take him on the tractor while he disked...Nathan spent hours on the tractor, watching, singing, and even sleeping. He especially loved to sit backward and watch the disk rip up the ground. Marion said it brought back fond memories of when he'd be on the tractor with his dad.
Well, little did we know how much Nathan was absorbing. Just this evening Marion found Nathan covered in grease and standing by the little Ford tractor 'greasing' the tractor. What surprised us is that Nathan put it together that (a) the tractor needed greased, (b) he needed a grease gun to do this, (c) there was a grease gun in the brown building - one that Marion had never shown him before and that he had to have discovered on his own, (d) he went all the way to the building, got the grease gun and then hauled it out to the tractor, (e) and the clincher...HE ACTUALLY FOUND TWO GREASE ZERKS to attach the gun to!!! THEN when Marion came to get him, he said he HAD to show Daddy where he'd greased so Daddy would know those were already done!
Now..is that amazing or what...the only time we can think of that he even remotely saw anything about greasing was when Marion was only greasing the disk...not the tractor! Now if we could just get Nathan more interested in using the potty!
We are constantly amazed at the imaginations of our children and how God has blessed them so richly. The things they come up with in their play and coloring makes a person wonder what happened to us as we grew up. When something like this happens, we just sit back and marvel at how great God is to give us children and wonderful it is to watch these children grow.
