Special Things

There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.
~Walt Streightiff

I have always experienced this through the eyes of my kiddos, especially my oldest, Christian. He is my softy- he definitely has an emotional side. Here lately he has this 'connection' to things you just can't keep the way they are.
Yesterday it was the fast moving clouds in the sky, he wanted to slow them down, to capture them. We took pictures and video but that just wasn't enough. He asked things like, will they ever be back, when will they be back, etc.
Today it was the four squirrels that chased one another from our neighbor's tree, to our roof, to the other neighbors trees. In awe we all watched as one squirrel defended another from the other 2 onlooking squirrels. I think maybe they we all fighting for her but the kids dubbed it as they were playing 'tag'. It was acrobatic as they flew from tree branch to tree branch. Christian teared up as I went in to lay Lexi down for her nap. He literally wanted the squirrels to stay where they were until I returned. He finally talked me into getting the camera for a few shots before going in to lay her down. I'm glad I did. Too often we don't slow down to do those little things. The joy in his eyes while we captured what we could was priceless. The tears as he realized they would not be playing 'tag' forever made me tear up.
So today we started a journal for him. I hope we can continue it. He even told me as I said good night tonight that he was glad that I thought of the journal. I mentioned that it is a neat thing to have and even on days we didn't see fast clouds or squirrels playing tag we could always think of something to write about the day. Of course his response was that the journal was for special things... LIKE LIFE WITH A CHILDREN I thought.