JACOB'S TANK AND LILLY'S HUG

     

1st photo:  Jacob moving a heavy geode rock 

2nd photo:  Lilly dressed like a princess to attend a bridal shower 

JACOB

Church started out quiet with Miss Lilly and Master Jacob in my pew. Then in came Alanya. Okay, she and Lilly can draw and color quietly together. Then Noelle and Ainsley joined us, and I thought I'd better be on the alert, this many kids and someone's about to be fussy when, lo and behold, I spied Jacob pulling something out of his backpack.

His backpack is very small, it usually holds a sippy cup, and a snack cup containing animal crackers, or pretzels, or little puffs, something like that, and then he's allowed a toy.  Well, he started pulling out this thing that's plastic green the width of his whole backpack and it doesn't seem to end.  His little hands and arms pull and pull. When I realized it was a 10 in. by 8 in. toy tank, my eyes got big and my brain screamed, "Noise maker!  Oh, no!" 

It didn't end there! He had 5 more littlier ones to add. Very exactly he lined them up under the pew ahead of us then sat back to look at them. How did his backpack hold all that!

LILLY

Lilly, about 7 years old, was leaving the deck.  The family was going home after having spent another Sunday here.  She and Jacob play hard.  Every toy gets revisited, and the great outdoors is their open playground.  They get a afternoon snack, then make it home for bedtime for school the next day.

The grandkids always hug and kiss me goodbye, and she had done.  

All of a sudden, from the second step down, Lilly left her mother's side, "Wait!"  

Her stuffed animal was swinging in her right hand as she made her way back up the step to me.

"Another huggy!" 

"I just don't want to leave you."  Ahhh, cupids arrows to the heart.

***  They left, I stood at the sliding glass doors waving, then scanned the yard for stray toys before closing the door.

Gently the tree swing swings.