helping others

Right now at church we're taking part in this year's "Make A Difference Day" which is an interfaith food drive. We're asked to help by donating peanut butter.
Well, Monday evening for FHE we did a small lesson (with an almost 2 yr old it has to be small and quick!) on helping others. We talked about how Chase is a good helper at home and how he can also be a good helper to others. We talked about how there are other families who need food and how we can help by asking our neighbors to donate some food too. So, we then went for a walk around our neighborhood and handed out flyers talking about our efforts and asking them to donate some peanut butter for the food drive as well. We are leaving a box outside our door for anyone who wants to participate. Chase LOVED it! He was so excited to go for a walk and then when he saw we were walking up to all the doors, he got even more excited. He liked that we even let him hold the flyers.






It was really fun to see him having so much fun with this, and hopefully one day he'll more fully grasp the idea of helping others (but for now, I just think he liked going for a walk!).

Yesterday we got home from running errands and as I was unloading the car Chase grabbed his shoes (he likes to take them off in the car) and ran them inside to put them away in the hall closet. I said, "Awesome! Good helper Chase!" and you know what he yelled back to me as he was running down the hall........."I KNOW!"