Simba, the lifesaver!

For months and months Nolan has woken up with bad dreams and comes crawling into bed with me. If I take him back to his bed across the hall, I end up staying awake for at least an hour before I can fall back asleep. This doesn't just happen once during the night, at least 2 or 3 times he'll end up in my bed. Finally, I just give up and let him stay with me. I wake up, exhausted because I don't get a decent night's sleep. I've tried every little trick from, leaving his door open with the hallway light on, to teaching him to try to pray to Heavenly Father to help his bad dreams go away. It never fails, starting about 2 hours after I fall asleep, I wake up with him right next to me. I've been getting a little frustrated! Well, on Friday there was a huge consignment sale in Roseville that I went to check out. It had tons of children's clothes, maternity clothes, kids toys and baby items. It was fun to walk through. When we got to the toys, Nolan spotted a big stuffed Simba Lion, from The Lion King. I had told Nolan that he could pick out one toy to bring home with him. He immediately fell in love with Simba, he LOVES the Lion King. So, I had an idea. This stuffed Lion is about the size of Nolan. I told Nolan that we could bring Simba home and he could sleep in his bed with him and scare all the bad dreams away. YES, I was getting very desperate for him to stay in his bed all night!!! Nolan, liked that idea and seemed very excited about it. He carried his Simba all the way to the car (which I accidently parked quite a ways away) and he talked to him the whole way there. Nolan has a very good immagination. That's probably why he has so many bad dreams. He told Simba, "I have an urgent job for you, Simba. I need you to scare away all my bad dreams." I was a little afraid Nolan would wake up and be scared to see a lion in bed with him, but I was still willing to give it a try. The last 2 nights, Nolan has stayed in his bed all night long! I've been sooooo happy and make such a big deal about it when he wakes up! It's been very nice. Thank you, Simba!

Testimony

Yesterday while we were driving in the car, Nolan asked me what a testimony is. I told him and then I heard him in the back kind of murmuring a little testimony. I thought, oh that was cute. Today, it was fast and testimony meeting and I told Nolan that this was when people shared their testimonies. He said that he'd like to go share his testimony. So, he did. I'm so glad Nolan doesn't seem to share the same fear I have of talking in front of a bunch of people. Nolan is a good example to me and I know Heavenly Father knew what he was doing when he gave me this little boy to be a mommy too.