You decide:
One of the high school students at church broke his leg a while back and has a big cast on it. One day Brad had Cora with him and was bring Josh home from church. Later, when Brad and Cora came home Brad helped Cora tell me what they had done.
"Cora, who did you just see?"
-- "Josh"
"What does Josh have?"
--"Owie" Cora said in a very sad, pathetic voice.
"Where is Josh's owie?"
--"Leg." Her face is all scrunched up in a concerned look and she's breathing short, quick breaths in the urgency of her message. So sad sounding!!
This was about two weeks ago. Almost every day since then, at random times during the day, Cora asks in a panicky sad voice "Josh? Owie? Leg?"
Tonight we went to church to hang out with the high schoolers for a while. We got in the car and I said to Cora "We're going to church to see Daddy!" She responded with "Josh? Owie?" Sigh...
"Yes," I said, "We'll see Josh, too. Do you want to give Josh's owie a kiss and make it all better?"
"Better," she says.
When we saw Josh at church I pointed him out to Cora and asked her if she wanted to give his owie a kiss. Instead, she turned all shy and hid her face in my coat and refused to say hi to any of the students!!!
I can't decide. Is she obsessed, or simply sympathetic?
PS How do you spell "owie?" as in "boo-boo"???
Sunday, November 23, 2008
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Sunday, November 09, 2008
Where to begin?
I'll begin with a huge thank you to everyone who made our trip to Alaska possible and wonderful! We had a fabulous week in Anchorage with Kristen, her kids, Greg and Ryan. I loved seeing a piece of their lives in AK and to have a picture in my mind now when I hear about Brad's past experiences living in AK. Someday Brad and I will have to go back together, maybe during the summer months!
My nephew and nieces are amazing! Cora loved playing with her cousins from the moment we got there. They were so loving and kind with her which warmed my heart. It took a little longer for Cora to warm up to her auntie and uncles, but by the end of the week she was tickling Uncle Greg and hugging Auntie Kristen without hesitation.
We were able to do some sightseeing around Anchorage, too. We drove up Turnagain Arm to visit Girdwood; we went downtown Anchorage; I hiked a little bit in Power Line Pass; and we drove north to Palmer and Wasilla and went sledding near Hatcher Pass and Independence Mine. The scenery truly is stunning in Alaska. We were able to see Mt. McKinnely a number of times and it was breathtaking!
We also saw a moose and her calf along the highway just outside of Anchorage on Friday (the day before we left)! The whole week everyone kept telling us that there are moose all over the place but we just hadn't seen any yet. Marge, Brad's mom, was especially skeptical because in all of her many trips to AK she had never seen a moose yet. Greg even took me intentionally to hike in areas where he "always" sees moose...but there were none to be seen that day! I decided they are tourist-shy animals. They may walk main street in downtown Anchorage and enter Doug and Kristen's backyard on a regular basis, and Ryan claims that mooses (plural?) greet him at his front door when he comes home. But they disappear when a camera-wielding tourist comes nearby.
This poor moose seemed to have been separated from her calf by a large fence. She was on the highway side of the fence and when we stopped to take pictures we saw her calf on the other side of the fence. She didn't seem at all distressed, thankfully. Anchorage actually puts these fences up to try to keep the moose off the highways and they make special openings every once in a while for them to pass through safely in case they manage to get on a highway. I guess there really are a lot of moose all over.
I'm thankful for safe travel and to be home again, but I will miss sharing meals with Mom, Kristen and the kids, coloring with Anna and Aleya, and watching Cora "tackle" Josh. I'll miss the nightly tea time with Kristen, conversation and laughter! We're looking forward to seeing you all again in a few months and hopefully we'll be back in AK sometime for one of the kids' birthdays!
My nephew and nieces are amazing! Cora loved playing with her cousins from the moment we got there. They were so loving and kind with her which warmed my heart. It took a little longer for Cora to warm up to her auntie and uncles, but by the end of the week she was tickling Uncle Greg and hugging Auntie Kristen without hesitation.
We were able to do some sightseeing around Anchorage, too. We drove up Turnagain Arm to visit Girdwood; we went downtown Anchorage; I hiked a little bit in Power Line Pass; and we drove north to Palmer and Wasilla and went sledding near Hatcher Pass and Independence Mine. The scenery truly is stunning in Alaska. We were able to see Mt. McKinnely a number of times and it was breathtaking!
We also saw a moose and her calf along the highway just outside of Anchorage on Friday (the day before we left)! The whole week everyone kept telling us that there are moose all over the place but we just hadn't seen any yet. Marge, Brad's mom, was especially skeptical because in all of her many trips to AK she had never seen a moose yet. Greg even took me intentionally to hike in areas where he "always" sees moose...but there were none to be seen that day! I decided they are tourist-shy animals. They may walk main street in downtown Anchorage and enter Doug and Kristen's backyard on a regular basis, and Ryan claims that mooses (plural?) greet him at his front door when he comes home. But they disappear when a camera-wielding tourist comes nearby.
This poor moose seemed to have been separated from her calf by a large fence. She was on the highway side of the fence and when we stopped to take pictures we saw her calf on the other side of the fence. She didn't seem at all distressed, thankfully. Anchorage actually puts these fences up to try to keep the moose off the highways and they make special openings every once in a while for them to pass through safely in case they manage to get on a highway. I guess there really are a lot of moose all over.
I'm thankful for safe travel and to be home again, but I will miss sharing meals with Mom, Kristen and the kids, coloring with Anna and Aleya, and watching Cora "tackle" Josh. I'll miss the nightly tea time with Kristen, conversation and laughter! We're looking forward to seeing you all again in a few months and hopefully we'll be back in AK sometime for one of the kids' birthdays!
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