As I sit here, my wonderful son is sitting in the living room, playing with his cars, and dancing to one of the songs on his Dog Train CD. I like this CD as the music is adult friendly and even though the words to the songs are cheesy, Tim really likes it. Anyway... I digress...
Tim is growing up so fast now. He can hold actual conversations now, almost all of audible. When he gets really excited or frustrated, he mumbles, but for the most part he has a pretty good vocabulary. It's amazing that just at Christmas, there was still so much of what he said we could not understand. Time goes by...
He seems to understand a lot more now too. More than even a few months ago.
Lexa too, has come a long way in just a short amount of time. At Christmas she was barely taking those first tentative steps by herself. Now I look at her as she "waddles" all over the house, and I am amazed. She is so independent now. She wants so much to be like her big brother and do all things he does. Time goes by...
They were out in the back playing yesterday. As I watched, Tim would go and play in the sand box and then go on to something else. Lex was right behind him the whole way, watching and trying so hard to imitate what he was doing. It was very cute!
It also made me realize how much she looks to him for how things are done. And it made me realize that Mike and I have long road ahead of us. Tim is going to be so influential with Lex, so we really need to make sure we are raising him right. It's kind of scary... I mean the world is so big, and there are some really not nice people out there.
But you know what... Our kids will be ok. I think all parents have this belief that their kids will be ok. They will learn how to survive in the world. They will live, love, laugh and be happy. I think as parents we all want these things and more for our kids.
I want my kids to know the Lord. I want them to work, and be responsible and yet still be able to have fun in life. I want them to marry for love, and never know heart break. I want them to live life to its very fullest and still have enough to give something back. I want them to realize that money is not the ultimate success story. These are just some of the things I want for my kids. I know some of these things will never happen. But I have hope that through time and prayer that most of them will.
Time. It all boils down to time. "Only time will tell..." "Time flies..."
So when you look at that way, it's good to take some time to reflect on things. Especially things that are important to you.
So, I hope everyone takes some time to just sit and reflect, and hopefully realize how much time we spend on things that are not so important, and maybe start moving around some priorities.
I have. In fact I am ending this now, so I can go read a book to my daughter, who just came over and handed me one, and then threw up her arms up for me to pick her up.
Take care~
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