In the interest of using this blog as a place to permanently capture memories and stories, I have two things I wanted to get down tonight before bed.
First: the kids and I spent another afternoon at the Adel pool today- and they both had new tricks. They insisted on spending the majority of their time in the deep end with the big kids…Jaeley diving over and over, and Brevin doing flips off the side. This follows a trip to the Hampton aquatic center this summer where Brevin went off the high dive a few times. Wow! B and J- consider it “on the record” that you were little fish at ages 4 and 5…and Jae announced during a break that she was going to be a lifeguard when she grew up and Brev concurred. Time will tell:)
Second: A story from last spring (April/May 2011)
Jaeley had been having trouble at daycare. She had been hitting and yelling at friends when she got upset. She even bit someone. My hunch was that she was feeling left out because she was the the part-timer there and didn’t feel like she was fitting in. I had used up all my counselor tricks- including starting her on a behavior chart. We were at our wits-end and didn’t know what to do about it! One day after dropping Brevin off at school, she was looking out the window of the van on the way home and said matter of factly, “Mommy, God talked to me in my dream last night.” I waited, not wanting to lead her, but she didn’t say anything so I prompted “Yah? What did he say?”
Jaeley answered, “He gave me a hug and telled me he loved me and not to be mean.”
All I can say is that she didn’t have any problems the rest of the year, and that I’m in awe of God’s ability to get through to such a little person. Bet it would help a lot of people to get a hug and be told they are loved:)
