I don’t think my heart could have taken a little girl…
Today, when we got home from preschool, he got out of the car and immediately caught this little lizard on his Nana’s steps. It promptly went into the bug catcher and by the time I saw him a few hours later, he had three of them. He loves to catch critters. His mama doesn’t. But, I have dove for several lizards over the last year or two because I know how happy it makes him.
Tonight we went to check on his dead bird. Sick, I know. He found it last Thursday and carried that thing around all day. Well…fortunately I talked him into keeping it outside despite his protests that he wanted to keep it until it stunk (ugh). So, today…we observed its state of decomposition. It is getting there. I told him that maybe we could keep some of the bones once the bugs were through with it. It was then that he really understood death. He busted out crying that he didn’t want his bird to die and that he didn’t want the bugs to eat it. This concept I thought he understood completely (cause we deal with death often on a farm) broke his heart today. I love that he is sensitive like that.
He challenges me daily in ways I never thought I would be challenged. I am convicted by my heavenly Father to be a good mother to him. To teach him about the world, yet still show him the grace that my Heavenly Father shows me. He’s not hard to love…just look at his sweet self below!
“A little boy is the only thing God can use to make a man.”
–Unknown
Kelli Covil Collins, owner of kelli c photography…to inquire about a session call 828.817.2011 or email kelli@kellicphotography.com. Serving all of NC and SC for newborn portraits, family sessions, and weddings.
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