A Tender Moment

K put together a stack of three Lego cubes that had pictures of animal heads, bodies, and feet or tails on them; when assembled with all the sides facing the same way, they make up a complete animal. He showed us the side that had a dog, and said, "You know why I made this for you? To remind you of Comet so you won't miss her so much."

Just because

After Shabbos, K, Papa, & Daddy were watching the last few minutes of a football game. D left the room and we heard the lid of the cookie jar, and when Papa went to see what D was up to, he'd disappeared. I spotted him hiding behind the chair in the living room but didn't let on that I'd seen him. A few minutes later he came back in the family room and we asked him where he'd been.
"I was hiding," he said.
"Why?" we asked.
"Because I just wanted to," he answered.
He climbed onto my lap, and I kissed him, and asked him, "Then why do you smell like oatmeal raisin cookies?"
"I don't know," he said with a straight face. "I was just hiding because I wanted to!"

Every Minute Counts

D wanted some vanilla yogurt, but we were just about to make Kiddush and have dinner so I told him he could have it for breakfast. Later, he said he wanted to sleep in the sleeping bag, so he went upstairs and got 2 sleeping bags out of the closet and brought them downstairs. He dragged the red one into the kitchen and announced that he was sleeping there. Why? "Because I want to have vanilla yogurt for breakfast the minute I wake up, so I want to sleep in the kitchen so I won't waste any time."