They are listening!

I am very behind on blogging and have pictures to post from our recent activities, but I will get those up later. I wanted to write a couple of stories down so that I could remember them. Sometimes I forget how much kids are listening even when you think they are not. Then they say something that slaps that reality in your face. And sometimes the associations kids make about things they hear can be pretty comical.

Funny Will and sweet Ainsley . . . .

Our dog Daisy hates thunder storms! It stemmed from a storm a long time ago when a tree fell on the porch where her dog house is. Since then, she would rather be out in the rain than on the porch during a storm, so Mitch's parents let her in the garage during storms now. So one Sunday at church Gill (Papaw) was in Will's Sunday School class for Extended Session (volunteers rotate keeping the little kids' classes during the worship service). The other teacher was leading the kids in the story about Noah's Ark. She explained how Noah gathered two of every kind of animal to put on the ark because it was going to flood. She talked about how it rained and rained and rained for 40 days . . . and Will turned around to his Papaw and said "You need to put Daisy in the garage" HA!

One of Will's therapists, Kristi Lowery - OT and one of the co-founders of Hope Landing - found out about 6 or 7 weeks ago that she has breast cancer. This is her fourth round of cancer since she was about 12 years old. She went for her yearly mammogram and next thing you know - cancer. Mitch and I have been talking about it and have told Will about it as well. We haven't talked to him about details, but he knows that she is sick and that she cannot come to Hope Landing for awhile. We arranged for him to send her some flowers right after her surgery. He reminds us every night to pray for her. We had not, however, talked about this specifically to Ainsley. But one night while we were saying bedtime prayers, she said "Pray for Mrs. Kristi be not sick anymore". That just melted my heart. I was surprised that she had been paying attention to that topic, but I was so proud that she knew to pray about it!