The Devil made me do it!

Our family has been reading the Book of Mormon every night before family prayer. That book can be quite confusing to a five year old trying to understand who exactly "the whore of all the earth" is, yeah, that brought some laughs.

The subject of Satan, aka the Devil aka The father of all lies, aka the "whore," and Camden wanted to know who that was. Nathan began explaining the Plan of Salvation and how Satan didn't want to follow Heavenly Father's plan but wanted to do things his own way and that he wants us to be miserable and make bad choices. Can you see where I'm going with this?

Last night, Camden had had a really great day being good and not whining but was having a little problem with following directions. After several failed attempts at being patient and reminding him, Camden received the two most awful words in a child's life, "TIME OUT!" He wasn't too happy about it but after his five minutes were up, Nathan sat down and talked about what happened.

Camden, with all seriousness and solemnity, said,"I think that guy up in heaven made me do it."

Nathan: Who?

Camden: You know, the guy who didn't listen to God.

Nathan: You mean the Devil?

Camden: yeah, him.

My son is only 5 and he is already blaming his mistakes on the devil!! We tried to repress our laughter and amusement while we explained that he always has a choice whether to be obedient or not.

Then, after all was forgiven and promptly forgotten, Camden was playing soccer in the basement and had been running around for about 15 minutes, when he came over to me, panting and said:

Camden: Man, mom! My leg pits hurt!! They're so tired from all the running I've been doing. Whew! I need to rest.

Me: Your leg pits?

Camden: Yeah, right here behind my knees.

hahahahahahahaha!!

Question: Do your leg pits hurt when you run around a lot?