December 17, 2008

Condolences Received

Danny and I just braved the blog together (sympathetic words always have a way of crumbling the strongest "tear-barriers", don't they?). We wanted to say thanks to all who were, and are, praying----and to all who left their words of comfort and encouragement. But for now, that's about as much as we have in us to say. Love to all...................S and D

PS---I feel like there have been too many reasons to tear up and too few reasons to chuckle lately. So I'm hoping to help break the tension a bit by adding some of my recent favorite Will pics!
This is one of the first actual drawings (versus his previous furious scribbling style of "drawing"). I wish you could see the look of concentration on his face, or the way each slight move he made was done with painstaking accuracy!!!!
This rabbit is, literally, the first identifiable work of art he has ever done. It actually appeared on the microwave several days before the first crayon picture was made. It literally took my breath away when I stumbled upon it (and the four or five Little People figures who were carefully stationed in front of it like an audience!)!
"I'm NOT ready for night-night!!" Oh, yeah?!! (You can't tell, but he's sound asleep---and his head is actually flopped all of the way down to the floor!)
Here's a perfect example of the "Little People Audience" he loves to create throughout the house. The part that caused me to pick up the camera this time is that he has posed them all to look in on the "memorial" of his sister! I asked him if his people were looking at the baby, and he replied: "Yes, the baby. You're right!" Why? Guess I'll never know!
"Honey? Do you know where Will is? I can't find him anywhere!!!" In our front room, which was pitch black at the time, Will climbed into this extra large container and promptly passed out! I had already searched the yard (and the pond...gulp...) twice before searching the room again and realizing that there was something flesh-colored in the box! (My camera's flash did a good job, because it was incredibly dark in there!)