"I go Temple!"

We love Tanner! He is such an amazing little boy. I'm so grateful he is part of our family. I just had to share this story. The other day Trent and I were getting ready to go on a date to the temple. I came out in my Sunday dress and this is what transpired between Tanner and myself.

Tanner: Go Church.

Me: No, but you're a very smart boy (thinking he had made the connection that when we wear Sunday clothes we go to church) Mommy is going to the temple. 

Tanner: I go temple!

He then proceeded to try to take off his regular clothes so he could get dressed in his Sunday clothes and "go to the temple" with us. I had to help him get his pants back on and explain that he would not be going to the temple with us, only mommy and daddy would be going. He was going to go see aunt Trina and his cousins. He thought that was a fair deal so he cooperated - He LOVES hanging out with his cousins ;)

 

It just touched my heart that Tanner was so adamant to go to the temple. The Temple means so much to me. I have talked with Tanner about the temple and how it is a special place. We often will point out to Tanner the pictures of the temples we have around our home. I've even taken him to the Provo temple just to walk around the grounds as I talked to him about the importance of the temples. It was neat to see him WANT to go to the temple with mom and dad before we left for our date that night!

As a side note: today I was getting ready to put Tanner down for his nap. He didn't want to go down and was about to throw a tantrum. As I picked him up to take him to his crib for a nap and he yells out (as if this is going to stop me from putting him down for a nap), "I wanna go temple!" Hahaha. I got a good laugh out of that. 

Thankfully we are going to the Ogden Temple Open House this next week with some of our non-member friends. Tanner will get to "go to the temple." Yay! Love our little boy!

I took these pictures the night Trent and I went on our date to the temple.