The miracle of a family keeps washing over my spirit in waves. The truth of it, the we are a family. Every family is a miracle and children who were not sought out half way around the world are not less miraculous. However, this is quite a thing to be experiencing. These boys as each other's brother. Brimer party of 4 truly describes our family. They love one another so much and really don't like to be apart. Today we had a brief timeout for one boy and while he was sitting I was playing with the other one just a few feet away and in the 1 minute of separation the boy not in trouble missed his brother. The sweetest kills me!
And they feel the absence of their daddy. They want him to be here for snack time, playtime and bath time and bed time. They mention him quite often. Especially Johnny, who is always thinking and trying to figure thing out.
Now you may be asking yourself "but are they really bonded after just those 4 weeks in April/May? How could they really miss their daddy?" Well, I will tell you how I know.
And they feel the absence of their daddy. They want him to be here for snack time, playtime and bath time and bed time. They mention him quite often. Especially Johnny, who is always thinking and trying to figure thing out.
Now you may be asking yourself "but are they really bonded after just those 4 weeks in April/May? How could they really miss their daddy?" Well, I will tell you how I know.
- For one thing, we sing A LOT! and we sing each person's name. Both boys will just be playing and they will be making up songs about our family. Benny, Johnny, Daddy and Mommy will all be mentioned in the songs.
- Today Johnny was asking when Daddy was coming here during bath because someone pulled into the driveway while they were in the tub and we could not see who it might be
- But the sweetest and best indicator is how the boys light up and shout "Daddy Daddy" when ever they look at his picture. They have now started to blow him kisses when ever they turn to a page with him on it in our family book.
- This is my favorite though and the reason for the blog title: earlier today, we were looking at our family picture book and we turned to the page where Daddy is sitting at the beach (this is Benny's absolute favorite page and we have to find it right away whenever we open the book or he will shout "beach, beach" until we do) so we turned to that page and we said hi to Daddy and blew him kisses and then Johnny got very serious pointed his finger at Daddy's picture and said sternly in his most commanding voice "Daddy, jango!" (Daddy, Come here!)
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