Giggles

I heard the sweetest sound yesterday. I wish I had a video camera on me or an upgrade to my dino-phone so I could have taken a video of it. It was so cool.

Number 1 is sick, so I took him to the doc yesterday afternoon. As we were driving home, #2 was singing in a singsongy trying-to-annoy-my-little-brother voice. #3 was whining and telling #2 to STOP and #2 kept on going. #1's throat hurt too much or he would have certainly joined in. Now, #3 does this singsongy trying-to-annoy-my-big-brother voice quite often too, so I didn't feel right stopping #2. You know, I wanted to teach #3 how annoying it is - natural consequences, right? So #2 is a persistent sort of fellow, so the singsongy-ness went on for 5 minutes. 10 minutes. 15 stinkin' minutes. Picture me driving and grinding my teeth with my eyes popping out of my head being in my relaxed space listening to a little K-1ove whilst this is happening in the back seat.

Ignore, Chris. Ignore. Don't micromanage the children...

So at a stoplight 15 minutes into this with no end in sight, I reached my hand back and gently took #2's hand. I said a prayer to myself. Something like, "Please, Lord, make the song stop! help me to love these little boys how you want me to love."

I looked at David and told him that he had been singing loudly for quite a long time. And that I loved him.

I turned back around to keep driving, and the boys started giggling.

(enter the sweet, sweet sounds)

And giggling.

And giggling.

And #2 started saying, "Oh my goodness! Look at that _____! Oh my goodness! Look at that _____!"

And #1 started giggling at that too.

And #3 started giggling and tilting sideways to be silly.

And the next thing you know, all three are belly-laugh giggling, saying silly things (the whole time D is Oh my goodness!-ing), and tilting sideways, and giggling more.

The giggling continued... down the road, through the drive-through, waving at people driving by, washing hands at home, eating dinner. Giggle, giggle, giggle.

Pure sweetness! It was awesome!

(((hugs))),
chris


Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take.    Proverbs 3:6