Wednesday, January 18, 2012
My grandson is in kindergarten, and he wanted to take his favorite new Christmas toy to school today; the pull string Jessie from the movie Toy Story. He has been playing with the doll(along with Woody and Buzz) nonstop since Christmas. We had to write his name on one of Jessie's boots as Andy did on Woody's boot in the movie. (Yesterday, he wore his Mom's floppy brown hat to school, because he thought he looked like Jessie and when he walked into the classroom, he took the hat off and said "yeeha, just like Jessie does!"). Well today when we walked into the classroom, his little girlfriend came up to him and gave him a great big hug, as usual, and then they began looking at his Jessie doll and playing with her. The little girl noticed his name on the bottom of one of Jessie's boots and immediately asked, "Can you put my name on the other boot, Elijah?" He shyly looked at her and said "Yes". Now here is pure, innocent, and unpretentious love; the sweet kind that is alive in childhood. I think it would be great to still remember how to love like that as adults. When I told my daughter the story of her sweet little boy, her comment was " What an example for adults to follow in relationships! You each wear a boot, so all is sharing and equal!" Love and wisdom are brought to us in many different ways throughout our lives. All you have to do is realize it.
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