Gratitude: Naw-naws...

Pumpkin has a favorite toy. Toys, really.

My necklaces. Which she calls Naw-naw.

Somehow, we have convinced her she can only have four of them.

There's a wall of necklaces in my closet and she believes she can only play with those four.

Doesn't stop her from asking for them. Every day.

She loves to wear them on her arm. Then she takes them off one at a time. Only to put them back on one at a time.

Sometimes she puts them in a basket. Sometimes in one of the baby beds. Sometimes she makes a circle out of them. Sometimes she just piles them up. Sometimes she moves them from the dining room to the first step of the stairs (which is the only one she can get to). Sometimes she puts them in the cho-cho. Sometimes she gives them to me. And then takes them back from me.

If she wants me to play with them, I count them every time they come off and every time they go back on.

One...two...three...four.

Well, tonight, she counted them.

On...tee...eee...orr.

Play = learning.

And I didn't even break a sweat.

Thank you Lord for play. Thank you for giving me the wonderful gift of being her mother. I love you.