Elizabeth’s Journal

Beautiful Things My Children Do

Kayleigh is discovering the world more and more each day. She is reaching her hands out to our faces and spent quite a few minutes this evening caressing Dale’s chin—and nearly falling asleep while doing so, staring in his eyes but blinking ever more slowly each time. She is giving us cuddles now—I’ll look down at her in my arms only to find her looking straight in my eyes, and as soon as I look at her she grins hugely and then buries her face in my neck. It seems that any day she’ll be crawling, although it could still be a few more weeks. She digs her toes into the ground to try to push herself forwards, and she’s gets stronger each day; I put her down on her back, and she can flip herself onto her stomach immediately, and then she can turn herself around 360 degrees. I love just to sit and watch her move her body around. Her arms are getting so strong! It’s so lovely to see her blossoming.

Jonathan’s head is full of all the things he’s learning at school—especially the no-nos. He comes home and practices his numbers and letters on a chalkboard that Tim & Felicia got him last year sometime, and I hear him saying—mimicking, really—what his teacher must say, “Now I don’t to see any loopy-loopies”, and other rhymes that help him remember how to write a letter or number. And he can get the best laughs out of Kayleigh, who smiles hugely but is hard to tip over the edge and get a laugh—unless you’re Jonathan. I got some video of him actually getting her to giggle yesterday, and I’ll send the link out to the movie once Dale gets a chance to make it and post it to the web. I have to say I love to watch the two of them together, and Dale and I have said to each other how we understand a little better now what his mum is feeling when she says how much she likes to see all her boys together in the same room. I’m very glad that we decided to have two children.