Monday, September 25, 2006

Double Standards and a First Friend

They say your kids will do what you do, not what you say. This is true for us.

We constantly tell Meredith to NOT write in daddy’s school textbooks. This is one of her favorite pastimes lately.

The problem is she sees daddy making notes with a pencil in his textbooks every day.

So, if daddy can do it, why can’t she?

Needless to say, Kevin has many beautiful pencil drawings in his textbooks, done by none other than artist Meredith.
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Meredith has made her first “friend.”

Until last night all other children in her life were referred to as “baby.” But, now, she calls another little girl at church by her first name, “Becca.” And she says Becca’s name with such excitement and joy, too.

This morning we asked Meredith if she had fun with Becca last night. When she recognized the name, her eyes lit up and she started chuckling.

It makes me so happy to see my daughter make a little friend.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

chuckling is something old men do, not babies.

Shannon Koons said...

I can attest. Meredith definitely chuckles. It's pretty funny to watch.

Matt said...

Nice blog. Thanks for sharing. On the God article - I did a similar but much smaller survey on belief in the UK several years ago and came to the same conclusions.

JoMama said...

Yeah, nice blog.