Browsing Archive: July, 2010
Today was another swim lesson. As we walked up and down the stairs to get ready, I came down looking for his suit and rash guard I'd placed on the kitchen table. Looking around didn't reveal anything so I turned to my bright son and asked, "where's your bathing suit?" He replied with, "It's hiding."
He was acting odd but I couldn't quite figure out why so I looked to where he was pointing on the ground under the table and didn't see anything. I asked again, "where's your bathing suit, Alex?"... Continue reading ...
Today was a swim lesson with Lauren, one of our babysitters. Afterwards, he shivered his way across the street to our house and we jumped in the "hot" tub. More like a bath. But perfect for extended periods of play. He had Nemo, Buzz and Woody but it wasn't complete until he had his "boggles." When Dad walked out with his goggles, he squealed with excitement and proceeded to spend the next hour or so dunking himself and looking at his toys and Daddy underwater. We witnessed the first nose bur... Continue reading ...
I'm seriously blessed by how darling my boy can be when we get ready for bed. We sang Julie Andrews' "Doe a Deer" while brushing teeth, read lots of Bible stories about boats, made the bed (made sure his blanket was "right there" in its special place) and got tucked in, both prayed to God and sang the "Jesus Song" (Jesus Loves me, this I know...) and then said goodnight and "I love yous" back and forth numerous times.
In fact, I just had to leave in the middle of writing this post to lay out h... Continue reading ...
Recently I was thinking about the lion from The Wizard of Oz and I thought of Alexander. The lion wanted courage, a seeming contradiction since he was, after all, a lion. Alex is a seeming contradiction as well. He doesn't look like a lion but he sure has an overabundance of courage! And a tremendous heart. We regularly feel like those lions on the animal shows where the cubs are climbing all over the parents, batting at them and just trying to get some attention. Every now and then the paren... Continue reading ...
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