Snow Snow Snow

You know it's pretty bad when it snows rather heavily but we only get maybe an inch on the ground. The kids were disappointed but it was just so cold. It has been very cold around here the last month. Down here in Tennessee we aren't used to temperatures hovering around freezing during the day and soaring down into the low 20s and teens. We are gratefully looking forward to having temperatures in the 40s and 50s this coming week.

Jeff took Allie and Josh to the mall last week while I stayed home with Benji and Micah. They had a fun time and Josh was very excited to see the Star Wars guys. We are still having to highly limit what they can be exposed to. Just seeing the Star Wars guys got him acting out heavy aggression. Jeff told him that it wasn't nice hitting people and he said I know and proceeded to hit Allie. He then said he was Darth Vader and Jeff told him Darth Vader is the bad guy. Josh said I know, I want to be him.

Days like that makes things unfathomable to me. If you teach a child to respect others and to follow the rules, after a while they should understand if they are a normal child right? Not really meant to compare but both Micah and Benji understand that you don't hit others and that you respect others space. Micah obviously has a better grasp being 3 1/2 than Benji at not quite 2. I just wish the therapist saw what we see with Josh.

God has a reason for all of this. Why would God bring Allie and Josh to us if it weren't for us to get them the help they need? They have progressed, just not nearly as much as we would have hoped. How do you teach a child about love when they have a misconception of what it is?