Last month we spent a few days in Melbourne visiting your aunt, uncle and two cousins. On the last day of the visit we went to cheer Joshua on at his school swimming carnival. Someone brought along a set of gold streamer pom poms.
Without any encouragement you started jumping and waving them around, just like a cheerleader at a football game. Your enthusiasm and delight were infectious. Many of the other parents, teachers and students stopped to watched your unabashed pleasure. It's a wonderful thing the way a happy, smiling toddler makes other people stop and smile. They sometimes catch my eye, as if to say "What a lovely thing it is to watch her, so free, finding wonder in things/places/tasks where we've forgotten to look for it?"
I think part of a toddler's life purpose is to make the adults around them stop and enjoy the moments.
Those poms poms certainly connected with your life purpose that day at the swimming carnival.
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