The thought of this just makes me smile. Sunday we were home just spending time together resting for this on coming work week, enjoying the weekend. Well I was washing clothes but same difference. As some of you know we lost a very special lady almost a month ago, Nanny(on Pooh's side), well what you may not know is that she kept children in her home until she was too sick to do so. There were always kids there, as far back as Pooh can remember. So she always had lots of toys and things for the kids. When we were there for the services they told us to take what we wanted home for our kids to have(her great grandchildren). I think that my SIL Kari has an old rocking chair, my other SIL Kim has a car, well we ended up with a little green tractor that the kids ride on.
The signifcantce of all of this is, Corbin is still too small to hold himself on the tractor and push.(It's actually the perfect size for my niece Ave and she drives it around the inside of my house when she is over.) But I put him on it Sunday and pushed him into the living room to see his Daddy. Well it has a horn, so we pushed the horn. As soon as Corbie heard it he giggled! So again and again we pushed this horn until the point where he was cackling(like his Dad & Uncles) and Pooh & myself were rolling on the floor! He did not feel very well yesterday so this was something that made him laugh and hopefully feel alittle better. The strange thing about my child is that he is very hard to make laugh or giggle unless you are tickling him, so this was a wonder to us both. Our first you might say.
As I listened at the joy this simple thing brought my son and our family my heart was bursting with love and pride. Also as I listen I couldn't help but thinking of Nan and how much she would have loved to have seen that. I can see her smiling, this is what life is all about. At the same time a small part of my heart aches for the simple thought that she never will. Life is amazing...how one simple little giggle from a child can do so much. I didn't have my camera out, tried to get one tonight of him on the tractor but he is still alittle under the weather....another day.
The signifcantce of all of this is, Corbin is still too small to hold himself on the tractor and push.(It's actually the perfect size for my niece Ave and she drives it around the inside of my house when she is over.) But I put him on it Sunday and pushed him into the living room to see his Daddy. Well it has a horn, so we pushed the horn. As soon as Corbie heard it he giggled! So again and again we pushed this horn until the point where he was cackling(like his Dad & Uncles) and Pooh & myself were rolling on the floor! He did not feel very well yesterday so this was something that made him laugh and hopefully feel alittle better. The strange thing about my child is that he is very hard to make laugh or giggle unless you are tickling him, so this was a wonder to us both. Our first you might say.
As I listened at the joy this simple thing brought my son and our family my heart was bursting with love and pride. Also as I listen I couldn't help but thinking of Nan and how much she would have loved to have seen that. I can see her smiling, this is what life is all about. At the same time a small part of my heart aches for the simple thought that she never will. Life is amazing...how one simple little giggle from a child can do so much. I didn't have my camera out, tried to get one tonight of him on the tractor but he is still alittle under the weather....another day.
Lindsey...that was absolutely beautiful! I know that Nanny was there with you guys...there is nothing more that she loved than to hear her babies 'laugh out loud!'. Thank you for sharing this...I miss her so much and love you guys so much! Aunt Punky
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