So often lately I look at you and think, “Where did my baby go?”. Your face is thinner, your legs stretching tall and you just act so big. I’m trying to adjust to a little boy who doesn’t always want kisses from his Mama – sometimes that’s just not cool.
A couple weeks ago I returned the pedals to your bike and after about ten minutes of me helping you balance, you took off! Now that you have no training wheels you are fast and the couple of times we have gone on walks in nice weather, you have raced far ahead of Abby and me. Then you have to sit and wait while we catch up. Daddy has also taken you several times down to a vacant parking lot where you go round and round and attempt to jump curbs. All of this just thrills you and it is delightful to see you so excited.
This month Daddy was gone in Brazil for two weeks and it almost seemed like you felt like the man of the house while he was away. Several times you commented that you would do the driving for me or that you were going off to work or that you would take care of Abby and me. Amazing to see those instincts in you so young! I think you really missed your Daddy, though. It was interesting to watch you when he got back – I think you held back a little bit because you were afraid he would leave again. But all is now well in your mind. You and Daddy have been having lots of fun together. One day we had a blizzard and Daddy got to stay home from the office. You and he walked to the grocery store together in driving winds and drifted snow purely for the fun of it. What a toughie – last year you would have never made it.
We’ve also started “preschool” this month – we have a designated activity and reading time each morning. It’s amazing to watch you eat up the knowledge – you’re working your way through the alphabet doing letter recognition, plus showing great interest in whatever topic I bring up for the day. For science we experimented with water, and one day for math I showed you how to use a tangram puzzle. You kept busy with it for over an hour, making your own designs! On your own you’ve begun attempting to write letters, even writing your own name one day (though the “a”s weren’t quite discernable!). Yesterday you even drew pictures of people for the first time – complete with head, eyes, ears, mouth and legs. And you continue to count up a storm, though now it’s all the way to forty-nine!
It also makes me so pleased that you have begun doing some of your chores without me even having to ask. Some days you will come to me and tell me that you have finished emptying all of the wastebaskets without my prompting. You also volunteer to set the table, make orange juice and help with laundry. So often I thank God for His work in you – a year ago I wondered if you would ever even sit still for ten minutes, much less show budding signs of responsibility.
I wonder if that will be much of my remaining journey parenting you – awe at what you accomplish and at who you’re becoming, knowing that it is in spite of me and because of Him. How I pray that your heart will turn to Him in gratitude, as mine so often does.
A couple weeks ago I returned the pedals to your bike and after about ten minutes of me helping you balance, you took off! Now that you have no training wheels you are fast and the couple of times we have gone on walks in nice weather, you have raced far ahead of Abby and me. Then you have to sit and wait while we catch up. Daddy has also taken you several times down to a vacant parking lot where you go round and round and attempt to jump curbs. All of this just thrills you and it is delightful to see you so excited.
This month Daddy was gone in Brazil for two weeks and it almost seemed like you felt like the man of the house while he was away. Several times you commented that you would do the driving for me or that you were going off to work or that you would take care of Abby and me. Amazing to see those instincts in you so young! I think you really missed your Daddy, though. It was interesting to watch you when he got back – I think you held back a little bit because you were afraid he would leave again. But all is now well in your mind. You and Daddy have been having lots of fun together. One day we had a blizzard and Daddy got to stay home from the office. You and he walked to the grocery store together in driving winds and drifted snow purely for the fun of it. What a toughie – last year you would have never made it.
We’ve also started “preschool” this month – we have a designated activity and reading time each morning. It’s amazing to watch you eat up the knowledge – you’re working your way through the alphabet doing letter recognition, plus showing great interest in whatever topic I bring up for the day. For science we experimented with water, and one day for math I showed you how to use a tangram puzzle. You kept busy with it for over an hour, making your own designs! On your own you’ve begun attempting to write letters, even writing your own name one day (though the “a”s weren’t quite discernable!). Yesterday you even drew pictures of people for the first time – complete with head, eyes, ears, mouth and legs. And you continue to count up a storm, though now it’s all the way to forty-nine!
It also makes me so pleased that you have begun doing some of your chores without me even having to ask. Some days you will come to me and tell me that you have finished emptying all of the wastebaskets without my prompting. You also volunteer to set the table, make orange juice and help with laundry. So often I thank God for His work in you – a year ago I wondered if you would ever even sit still for ten minutes, much less show budding signs of responsibility.
I wonder if that will be much of my remaining journey parenting you – awe at what you accomplish and at who you’re becoming, knowing that it is in spite of me and because of Him. How I pray that your heart will turn to Him in gratitude, as mine so often does.
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Loved reading your journal for Isaac. I do this only once a year on birthdays. It is so meaningful as the children grow up.
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