We are seeing Benjamin's personality coming through more and more each day. His sweet soul and gentle nature. He is so inquisitive and active, so smart and always so very present. He tells us what he needs, a lesson we could all learn from a Child. He says "say mo (more) please" rather than just "more please" and he says "Mo strawsies" for strawberries. He talks up a storm and hearing what he has to say is such a gift because communicating with words from a 2 and a half year old is not only some very funny material but helps take away the guessing game we've had to play. Last night he kept saying "hi" to the Moon, we would go for walks at night and point everything out but to hear him say it more than a week later means he remembered us saying hi to the moon on our walk. He also asks us what's wrong and why we are crying which is his way of repeating what we are asking him, things like that make us laugh, little Mr. Compassion.
On Children
Kahlil Gibran
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might
that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable.
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