Today Carter gave his first talk in Primary and he did awesome! He’s not a real center-of-attention kind of kid so I was concerned that he would refuse to get up there or at least refuse to say anything. But when his turn came, he walked up to the front and loudly repeated his talk without hesitating.

Here is the talk he wrote about gratitude and being thankful:

Heavenly Father and Jesus want us to be thankful. They have given us a lot of blessings and we need to say thank you.
When you tell someone thank you, it makes them feel good because they know that you like what they gave you.
I am thankful for the scriptures and the Book of Mormon. I’m glad that I have a family so I’m not alone.

I’m not sure what prompted that last line, but he was very serious when he said it to me so I wrote it down. I think it provides a little insight into his personality though. He always wants one of us to play with him and he loves being cuddled, so it makes perfect sense that he doesn’t like to be alone. Thinking back, it was really hard on him when we moved Raine into her own room. He didn’t want to be in the room by himself and always wanted one of us to lay on the floor next to his toddler-bed while he went to sleep. (Fortunately, he has a great dad who would lay there with him on the hard floor.) The more I think about it, the more examples I can think of that show how much he hates to be alone. And not just anyone will do, he wants to be with his family. It’s something I’ll cherish more consciously now. After all, it’s doomed to change eventually!

Here is a video of Carter repeating his talk after church. It was OBVIOUSLY not his idea to do it!