Kids
(after hugging me for the 1,000th time)
"We've got to be nice to our friends!"
- Alice Pilkinton, 3
"When I was a baby, and I got mad in the night, I remember what Lissa did. She gave me my blanket and gave me my bottle."
- Alice
"I wish I could keep you."
- Alice
"Mom and Dad and Marin should take a trip to China for 100 days. You could stay here!"
- Calvin Pilkington, 6
"You taught me my first word to spell." - Calvin
"I did? What was it?" - Me
"T-o-o-t!" - Calvin
Alice - that little girl makes my heart leap with joy. She is absolutely beautiful (with her huge blue eyes and still-curly hair), and the happiest 3-year-old you'll ever meet. That she's growing up so well makes me so incredibly proud.
Calvin is so bright - he can read absolutely anything put in front of him (as a first grader that's pretty rare) and knows so much already. Somehow Calvin manages to recall our little inside jokes and execute them with perfect timing.
Adrian is becoming such a grown up kid. When I was tucking her into bed last night, I said, "Can you believe you're going to turn 9 in 9 days? I remember when you were only 5!" Saying that made me realize, again, how important our year together was. She's got such a good heart.
I'll always consider those kids "my kids" because they were - and going back and hanging out with them again reaffirms it - they are, at least in part, mine.
PS - Jim's coming home today!
"We've got to be nice to our friends!"
- Alice Pilkinton, 3
"When I was a baby, and I got mad in the night, I remember what Lissa did. She gave me my blanket and gave me my bottle."
- Alice
"I wish I could keep you."
- Alice
"Mom and Dad and Marin should take a trip to China for 100 days. You could stay here!"
- Calvin Pilkington, 6
"You taught me my first word to spell." - Calvin
"I did? What was it?" - Me
"T-o-o-t!" - Calvin
Alice - that little girl makes my heart leap with joy. She is absolutely beautiful (with her huge blue eyes and still-curly hair), and the happiest 3-year-old you'll ever meet. That she's growing up so well makes me so incredibly proud.
Calvin is so bright - he can read absolutely anything put in front of him (as a first grader that's pretty rare) and knows so much already. Somehow Calvin manages to recall our little inside jokes and execute them with perfect timing.
Adrian is becoming such a grown up kid. When I was tucking her into bed last night, I said, "Can you believe you're going to turn 9 in 9 days? I remember when you were only 5!" Saying that made me realize, again, how important our year together was. She's got such a good heart.
I'll always consider those kids "my kids" because they were - and going back and hanging out with them again reaffirms it - they are, at least in part, mine.
PS - Jim's coming home today!