Kids July 5 2014

K. is two tomorrow and T will be four in Sept.  How we have enjoyed the babes and now children.  Still that beautiful uncensored response to you and everything in their world ...as they figure it out with so much loving guidance.  They remembered us when we returned from our 3 and 5 week vacations respectively.  K with open arms and T shouting g'ma and then looking the other way and needing time.

At the lake yesterday I had K at the park.  She climbed the ropes up and down and when I picked her up and said well done up and down on her own...she smiled a big wide smile acknowledging her accomplishment to herself.  And the same again on more climbing equipment.  Then we went to the beach.  She wanted Mom who was out in the water with T.  I said that we could swim out but that she needed a life jacket.  She said no life jacket and I said again the choice - a jacket if you want to go out there.  She thought about it for a good long minute and then said life jacket and then Mom came in.  Oh...to see the little brain working it all out.  Choices, whether to have a temper, how to demand, and then coming up with a quite mature response...so smart they are.

At the lake again today for Stampede breakfast.  K wanted to go into the bouncy castle but as she followed T in she got upset with the bounce and came out.  So that was fine.  As T came out, she wanted to try again...so in she went...and there was space for T again.   T went in as well.  K was a bit distressed at first but she got used to it and got her balance and found an edge.  But T, bless her, took her hand and helped her for the rest of the time.  She is pretty loving in words and often in actions with her little sister.  She is so aware of her and they do actually play together.  So the older one brings the younger one further along in interaction, etc as they play together.

We are so blessed to have the opportunity to spend time with these two little treasures who love so spontaneously and react the way they feel.