"Train up a child"

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. - Proverbs 22:6

We are doing our best as parents and hope and pray that this scripture will hold true with our kids. Here is recent example of how much our children learn by example and regular family routines:

Kitty for several months now has been helping out with our bedtime routine. (It just took me a while to take pictures of it...) When we all go downstairs and announce that it is time for scriptures, she will go over to the bookshelf and hand out scriptures to everyone. She will even take her dad's scriptures downstairs if he is still down in the office. As soon as scripture time is over, we will say that it is time for family prayer and she will promptly get down on the floor and onto her knees.

The last 2 or 3 days Kitty has knelt down for prayer and then started babbling some words, says, "Amen", and then gets up from her knees and looks around at us with a big grin on her face. (Her first prayer :) We are all amazed at how quickly she learns and how much she wants to participate!