Peace Like A River


It was a wide river, mistakable for a lake or even an ocean unless you'd been wading and knew its current. Somehow I'd crossed it... Now I saw the stream regrouped below, flowing on through what might've been vineyards, pastures, orhards... It flowed between and alongside the rivers of people; from here it was no more than a silver wire winding toward the city. - Leif Enger, Peace Like A River

Monday, March 10, 2003

Could it be? Might it be? Is it possible? This might be the last cold morning of the winter. More bone-numbing temps this morning, below zero with wind chills worse yet. But, warm air is coming our way, and could be in the 20s by late afternoon, and it will only continue to get warmer throughout the week. Could hit 50 by the weekend! It's the little things in life. (Kris said it was 65 there in CO. Boo hiss.)

John had a busy weekend. Stayed indoors on Saturday as it was cold, but he played with his toys. Liked playing with his Fisher Price train set.

Last night after our time in the nursery, we stopped by "Old Donalds" so he could play in the kiddie area. He would probably stay there all day if he could. He'd run with the other kids and crawl through, and come over often just to check in and get some ice cream and milk. As usual, wasn't happy about leaving.

In fact, when we left the nursery, he wanted to stay and play, and so wasn't real cooperative in getting his coat on, but when I said we could stop by Old Donalds, oh, he got happy right away and got on his coat. And on the whole way over to McDs, from time to time I could hear from the backseat "Old Donalds".

This morning he was telling me about it, and said things like "stop hitting me", or "keep going". Hmm, wonder if other kids in there were saying those things. It's funny what he picks up on and remembers.

When I ask him about jumping on the couch with Julia, which he loves to do, he'll often say "no pushing...naughty...timeout". So I wonder if they get a little rambunctious and Sue has to calm them down sometimes...

Lately he's been pretending to be sad, and then I'll comfort him. He'll say sad, and then pretend to whimper, put his hands to his face and come over for a hug. Sometimes he'll say "feel better". Not that he really is sad, he's just pretending. Funny. Don't know where he started that.

He had to go to New Horizon today again, as Sue was sick. Dropped him off and the other kids were sitting nicely around the table about to have breakfast. John just wandered off to play. But, he'd already had breakfast so shouldn't have been too hungry.

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home