The Magic of Change
With the passing of the pacifier came a new development that I hadn’t expected. Forest doesn’t always nap now. Like Logan, it’s hit or miss and the days of the one hour afternoon quiet can’t be assumed. *sigh* Forest doesn’t do as well as Logan without a nap but he definitely has made vast improvement over how it was last summer when he skipped naps.
The good thing though is that the boys are playing so well by themselves now. They spend hours using their imaginations to create new worlds and imitate the life around them. The little Batman figures take a shower and go to the bathroom in their batcave. Their baby is taken on picnics in the living room. Cars are driven across every surface reachable and often fly through the air. And anything and everything talks. It’s wonderful and magical. So much so that “magical” has become a bit of a mantra for me recently.
It seems like so many things that are part of life, part of the ordinary, are such a given that they carry a bit of the extraordinary in them. Just like the magic of sitting there feeling the babies in my womb would jolt me to the core with the intelligence and majesty of biology, so too does this phase of imagination and imitation. The independence is challenging but it too carries so much magic to me. I find myself in a place of innocence as I look around and revel in the magic that is all around. The irony is that I’m currently reading Neal Stephenson’s book “Quicksilver”, a historical fiction about the heyday of Natural Philosophy and Isaac Newton in England and the new colonies in America. As I laugh at how they believed flies spontaneously were born out of dead flesh, I find myself using the word “magic” simply because I find the processes of natural growth beautiful.
But now reality slivers in and I’m off to see if I can magically convince these two very busy three year old boys to take a break in their day and give this Momma a break as well.
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