...that make you smile towards Heaven and thank God for all you have been given.
Like yesterday afternoon, when Nick and I pulled up in front of our house, and Todd rushed outside, like he does every day, to greet me with a kiss, and beat me to the back seat passenger door so he could carry Nick inside the house.
Todd always stops for a second before taking Nick's car seat out of the base, and flashes Nick a smile and says "what's up, buddy!" Naturally this makes Nick crack up, because, obviously, Daddies are hilarious.
But yesterday, Nick was especially talkative. He had so much to say that he started "talking" the minute we pulled up to the house, and continued all the way in the house, while being unbuckled from his car seat, walking up the stairs, and having his diaper and clothes changed.
Once he was all changed, Todd took Nick in to our room and we all laid down on the bed. For some reason I had "he's got the whole world in his hands" stuck in my head (truth be told, it's because ConAir was on TV the night before, and while a totally creepy scene in the movie, it still remains a great song), so I began singing it to Nick. He cracked up and started talking and singing and kicking his legs along with me.
Todd thought it was disturbing that I was singing that song after having just watched ConAir, so instead he put Sugarland's "Stuck Like Glue" on his iPod and the three of us sat there singing and cracking up as Nick ate up every second of it.
And while at the time it seemed like a silly normal moment for our little family of three, I can't help but smile at how that will always be a treasured memory in my heart.
At one point Todd said "I should probably get the video camera for this"...but it was such a spontaneous, impromptu sing-along, that it would've taken something away from the moment. And I know my heart will always be able to play that memory back in my head better than any video camera ever could.
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