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I love to see Jacob's brain in action.  It works in mysterious and amazing ways.

Tonight for Family Home Evening (family lesson and activity) we talked about the scripture in 1 Corinthians 3:16-17,  "Know ye not that ye are the temple of God…"  We talked about the gifts that our bodies are, and the importance of taking care of them.  At one point we were talking about our need for water, and I mentioned that are bodies are made up largely of water (as babies we are about 75-80% water, with that decreasing to 55-60% at adult maturity…quite a bit!) and I saw the wheels turning for Jacob as he replied,

"Mom – I think Heavenly Father gave us the earth as a representation of our bodies.  There are many things about the earth that are very similar to our bodies – including the fact that the earth is also made mostly of water (about 72%).  And just like our bodies, we need to take care of the earth…keep it clean, healthy and nourished."

I loved that analogy!  He is on a big recycling kick lately, and I think he has a good point about the important parallels of God's creations.

Then later this evening he and I were working on his UIL spelling words.  He is on his school's UIL Spelling team where they will compete with other schools in February.  He has 600 spelling words to learn and memorize in the coming weeks.  Tonight we were working on the 'b' words.  He had not seen these words yet, we just did a first-run quiz, and out of 30 he only missed 9.  Then we went over each word on the white board and quizzed again, and he got all of them correct.  These are not easy words either – business, breach, barricade, bilingual, etc.  I am so impressed with his brain – he can learn so quickly and absorb so much at a time.  In fact, I told him how impressed I was with how things stuck in his brain once he learned them, and he said,

"Yep – it's just like bubble gum on the bottom of a bus seat."

There you have it!

Edited to Add:  More cuteness came from him this morning as Derek was walking them to school.  Jacob stuck out his tongue, breathed in heavily and said, "I smell ICE."  To which Derek replied, "I smell LATENESS, so get going!".  Then Jacob said, "If you look up snow-lover in the dictionary, you'll find my name."  (Or so he thinks, since he's never actually had to live with snow for longer than 2-3 days at a time, and even then only once a year!).  But, cute, nonetheless.