What beautiful children

There are so many wonderful things going on with our lives.  Raffaele asked a nine year old to marry him the other day.  He does cute things like that.  At the playground the other night, he greeted each child that arrived.  He was happy to see one of the girls that is a regular visitor to the playground, and he wanted to offer her juice and cookies.  I learned a while ago to always pack extras, just in case another child wants juice and he offers.  So, I passed the juice and cookies over to him, and he offered them to the girl.  (I checked with the father first who was standing near by.  He found the whole scene endearing.)  Raffaele is really demonstrating some beautiful, helpful behaviors.  He keeps me happy.

Theresa has a set of skills that is so different from Raffaele's!  For example, she has SO MANY words all ready at almost 14 months old whereas Raffaele still only had three discernible words at 18 months.  I'm constantly amazed at the breadth of her vocabulary.  She does not, however, like to build with the Mega Bloks as much as Raffaele did at this age.  I keep trying to do Mega Bloks with her, but she has no interest whatsoever and she goes to something else. She does, however, love her "babies" very much.  She has two very cute little dolls.  The other morning, I prepared for Theresa her morning bottle of formula and she wanted me to feed her baby first.  My children's actions are constantly touching my heart.