Zeke Measures Up!

Oh yes, oh yes!  At long last, Zeke was finally able to ride the big roller coasters at Valley Fair this weekend! 

As you can see, he just barely squeaked by.  The suspense was incredible as we drove there after lunch this Saturday.  We knew he had grown, as we’d been measuring him on a doorframe at home, but until you get officially measured at the Valley Fair office, you just never know.  Once again, we were the loudest family around as Elijah and Zeke jumped up and down, giggled excitedly, and Elijah shouted, “Zeke measured up!  Zeke measured up!”  Pretty exciting.  He loved each and every roller coaster too, which surprised me.  Some of them are pretty intense!

Zeke rode another kind of roller coaster this weekend as well though, unfortunetly.  The emotional kind.  After his euphoric Saturday, on Sunday morning he was given a hard pill to swallow.  The kids were all given their parts for the Christmas play yesterday morning and, wouldn’t you know it, Elijah got a speaking part and he didn’t.  Oh dear.  Zeke wept…he didn’t just cry, he wept.  Heartwrenching sobs.  It was so sad!  No amount of explaining that “Elijah never had a speaking part when he was five either,” could help. 

“Well, I’m telling them next week that I don’t even want to be in the play!” Zeke declared.  Perfect time for the “those who are faithful in little, will be given much,” talk… which seemed to fall on deaf ears.  Sigh.  I must tell myself that at least some of what I say is getting lodged in those brains of theirs…somewhere…somehow.   I believe this is when prayer becomes a very integral part of parenting…asking the Lord to do what we can’t.  He needs to make Truth come alive in their hearts. 

Oh Lord, let it be so!