Tuesday, September 20, 2016

I picked up this adorable monkey from school, and she was sacked out before we made it home.  She learned how to drink from a water fountain!  How amazing is that?  It required her to stand on a step stool, push down on the lever, and stick her face in the water.  All of those things are things in an of themselves.  I was so impressed with my little girl.  Of course, when I arrived all the kids were just coming in from the playground.  They were all so hot and thirsty.  The teachers had successfully gotten them to sit down lined up against the brick wall to wait for their turn to get to go to the water fountain.  When Selah June saw me, she jumped up and ran inside…and her first stop was the water fountain.  I think we seriously cut the line.  (Yikes!)

I am just amazed that those teachers manage order among a whole group of 1-2 year-olds. How is that even possible?  I can’t manage order with one 2-year-old.

That’s probably what I find so enchanting about these quiet moments in the car.  There’s a certain mystifying magic about the calm in the eye of the storm.

Jeremy and I are really trying to make our family time together count.  I know everybody says that, and who am I to think I’m any different.  But with all the technology in our lives, there’s a certain need to tune in to each other and tune out from the rest of the world for a while.

We decided to do something together as a family before dinner.  So when Selah June expressed some interest in play-doh, I grabbed all of them and steered us all to the table. She really just wanted to stack them all, but it gave us a great opportunity to talk to each other and explore new uses for regular kitchen items. We mushed play-doh with spatulas and tongs and stacked up our mini play-dohs as high as we could before they toppled down.