The Boy

"(T)he skinny kid with dreams in his head..." is a line from a children's book called Barn Dance, and that's a really great way to describe our boy. Joe is a thinker and a planner (and rather on the slim side of skinny)! Most recently he has been onto this idea of getting a lava lamp...don't all six-year-old's want that?! So he prays every night, "God, if it's your will, please let me get a lava lamp for Christmas. And if it's not your will, please help me to be OK with that."

He's off to Kindergarten in a matter of weeks and is rather anxious about this upcoming change. Anything new and different is difficult for him, but he has a great teacher and we know that after the first few days he'll be fine. It's going to be really different without him around here all day to run the "pretending games" and make sure everyone is imagining correctly. We often say, "He's just a piece of work!", but we know Whose workmanship he is, and we're so thankful!