Every now and then, we all encounter moments where we wished we had a camera. Moments that we wish we could freeze in time. Not having a camera at the time, I now want to paint a couple pictures for you of the last two I’ve experienced.
A couple days ago, I got home from about 5 days of meetings at a camp 45 minutes outside of town. When I got home, the idea of “daddy” was once again a novelty, and I got to play dolls, push little girls on swings and everything else I had been missing for the previous days. Then, at bath time, Noelle came tearing down the hall, naked as could be, yelling “papai, papai” (Daddy, Daddy). After Marla took her back into the bathroom, I followed her. When she saw me again, she jumped from Marla’s arms into mine. Then she put her arms around my neck and squeezed for a long time saying quietly “papai, papai, papai.”
Then on Sunday, after church was over, Marla and I went to pick up the girls from their Sunday school class. As their class is in an old converted house, we could look in the room from one window, and see what was going on. Posted at the other window like a sentinel was Samara waiting to catch the first glimpse of us as we rounded the corner. I could see that clutched in her hands were the two gram crackers that she had been given. She had broken each cracker in two separate pieces, so that she clutched four equal sized crackers in her hand. As we picked her up, she carefully distributed one cracker to daddy, one cracker to mommy, one cracker to Noelle and one cracker for herself. Her teacher later told us that she had been saving those crackers during the whole class… just so that she could share with us.
How I wish a picture could fully capture such moments
I had the most fun time today at this really amazing place. I’d never seen so many other kids before, running, playing, climbing, fussing, whining, laughing, shopping, splashing and creating, it was so great! I especially loved the water room where I got to wear a fun yellow cover up, chew on a rubber duck and splash in the water. Gramma found a slide that was just my size and I clapped my hands and squealed. I went down it over and over. My big sister really had fun too. She was bouncing up and down and so excited about everything. I think her favorite part was shopping for and buying things at the little store and playing with the clay. Mommy and Daddy took lots of pictures so I’ll ask Mommy to post some for you to see on our pictures page.
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