Elias has quite a few toys to play with. He has rattles, stuffed animals…toys to chew…toys that make sound. And lots of books! Don’t get me wrong. He thoroughly enjoys them all. But there is a special joy in his little eye when he gets to play with the kleenex box. I have to push all the tissues inside because he tries to eat those if he can get his hands on them and it makes a sticky papery mess. He holds it and turns it and stares at it and tastes it. You’d think that kleenex box was the only one of its kind. We should all be so content with the simple things in life.
Now Elias is trying to type for me too so I’d better stop.
I still remember trying to type a graduate school paper on the Gospel of John with a two year old hanging from my neck…… honestly, I thought he’d take naps until he went off to school. And that was before home computers!