Saturday, August 07, 2010

pals

palsI peaked in Joe's room and saw them playing this game.

Joe is becoming good friends with a girl named Leah. He has known her for a couple of years. They have taken swimming together at MSU and they have played on the same T-ball team for two years. This summer we have made an effort to get the kids together. On Friday morning Leah was dropped off at our house and the two played together--ALONE--for a couple of hours. I peaked in on them every 20 minutes and they were having a great time playing games, listening to music, playing with cars and at the end of the morning putting on a puppet show. This was the first time (in over 7 years) that I have been able to leave Joe for extended periods with another child and not intervene or interpret for him. And how did Joe sum up his time with Leah? "I just love Leah. She's fun."

4 comments:

Michelle S. said...

WOW!!! Fantastic! How wonderful for you and esp. for Joe.

Timothy and Beth said...

Aw, Joe. I just love Leah too. She seems really fun!

Kelly said...

How WONDERFUL!!! I love watching new friendships bloom:) I can only imagine how this made YOU feel, these pics sure do make a mama's heart smile!!

Jennifer said...

That is awesome!!! So encouraging for Joe and exciting!