The Comfort of a Touch

Today 's observation struck a nerve deep inside. I was at work looking after a couple of boys when a mom came to get her son. She had just done two hours of classes and was tired and hungry and her son didn't realize until they got to the car that his Nintendo DS was missing. 

They came back and he was very upset. I didn't see him come in with it and his mom was frustrated and he was crying. He tried to hug his mom or hold her but she told him not to touch her because she was already irritable. 

This kind of scene makes me want to hug my boy all the more, no matter how he's behaving. I know she isn't like that all the time it's just sad to see it happen at all. I believe everyone should receive comfort when needed no matter what. Imagine a world that operates that way! What a nice place it would be. 

Cheerio? Well it's soggy but its a reminder to be kind when you don't feel like it. I know I feel better bring kind than when I'm being mean. It can be really hard, but it's worth it when you succeed. 

Sugar Rush (full bodied excitement)

This happened probably a couple of weeks ago right after my husband gave our son a sip of lemon aid. We were in the living room and our son is up and walking around. He stops, looks at us, gives a little baby babble yell and sort of hops back and forth from one foot to the other like he's getting warmed up to run. He then ran back and forth and just seemed to bounce around the room like he didn't know what to do with himself. 

He's done this a few times since then so I don't think it was purely a sugar rush as much as its just his way of expressing excitement. It made me realize that as we grow up we lose some of that uncontainable energy and become more reserved. It also made me appreciate how precious these early years are because his innocence allows him to do things that he will later probably not do for fear of embarrassment. Right now he can express himself freely however he is moved to do so. 

Cheerio: the excitement that my son expresses reminds me not to care too much about what others think. This is how life should be experienced.