Saturday, February 7, 2009

My Own Child

I did not plant you,
true.
But when the season is done,
when the alternate prayers for sun and rain
are counted,
and when the pain of weeding
and the pride of watching
are through,
then I shall hold you high.
A shining leaf above a thousand seeds sown wild.
Not my planting,
But by heaven,
My harvest,
My Own child

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Wonderous


It is amazing to see the progress that Jake is having. As "most" parents get to admire their child from just hours old to this pt. Ken and I have just begun our journey of 6 mos and Jake at 2.
So everything just astounds us to his nature. Jake is turning out to be quite musical. Everything he picks up becomes an instrument. His bat is now a guitar and a horn. The windows a piano...you get what I'm saying with all of this. He sings out loud and I mean loud the songs that come on the tv. Although he is quite athletic, I'm loving his musical tendencies. My heartache is that I have none and so his dad will have to teach him the ways of the music. But his other love is animals and I couldn't be prouder as a mom. He loves the dogs, in fact he tries to mimic them every chance he gets whether it is how they sit or lay down or sniff around the house. He cracks me up how he studies solomon. Solomon of course only sees Jake as being a way to have people food as he is the first to sit right by Jake when he eats...just in case he happens to let anything fall down. Jake however loves food so much he is NOT happy to share with solomon and so sometimes he gets in arguments with solomon on getting away from him during his food time.

All of it is so funny to me and I feel like I am taking it all in as a clinical psychologist takes in his clients. I just study Jake from time to time, what is he doing and what is he saying.
Jake has a wonderful imagination and he will be in the living room just imagining and playing by himself with all kinds of different things, very interesting.
Sorry, this is probably boring for all 3 of you reading this to read, but whenever I show this to Jake I want him to know how intriguing he is to his mom and how wonderous a creation.