Some days, I go through my uploaded pictures in Lightroom and reject all of them.
And then some days, I can’t help it … I catch my breath.
The hair blowing in the wind. The framing of the shelter she was sitting under. The symmetric trees in the background. Her. She just takes my breath away.
And then mere minutes later, she shows up with this.
A tadpole!!!
[cue sanitizing gel]
Ken was playing tennis, and one of his teammates brought his kids. Emma immediately said, “Can I go play with them?” And off she went.
The little boy was busy digging for tadpoles the entire time, but when they weren’t running obstacle courses and drinking 8 gallons of water from the water fountain, the girl shared her Nintendo DS with Emma.
I actually learned a lesson or two from this 8-year old. She was so patient with Emma, and when Emma wanted to play this one game over and over and over and over again, the sweet girl just sat there and said, “Okay. That’s my favorite game, too.”
Unlike me, who sometimes gets so tired of Emma playing the same games over and over and over that I hide them way up high in the hall closet.
She also sat and showed Emma how to play different games, how to change the settings, how to make different shapes – and never once did she get exasperated with Emma’s lack of patience.
And when her and her brother wanted to do an obstacle course, but Emma took off running instead, they didn’t yell at her to come back and do what THEY wanted to do – they just shrugged and ran after her.
Yes, I could definitely learn a thing or two from these amazing kids.
