Those little smiles

So here we are just plugging along and watching as the little one changes day by day and grows and acquires new skills. Sometimes you can tell she is trying so hard to get a sound out of her throat but just can't quite figure it out.

How that must be? How we come into the world with all the parts but no clue as to how to make them work. As the hours, days and weeks go by we learn to keep our eyes focused, get our tongue to curl just right, get the facial muscles to do a whole lot of squinching up and down, get the grunting to fill the diaper, and of course to wiggle just about everything. So much to learn and to try to get it all sort of figured out by the first 6 months. Man we must be smart when we are born. To get all of that done and more is so amazing. Life is truly a miracle.

Just the body parts and the workings of our bodies. Do we not take that for granted way to much. I would think so. Especially when we are young. Or at least you younger folk.

If we think about all the work it is as a baby to get it all to work when we want it to. Should we not also do something like that all of our lives to keep it in good working order? Eat good food. Don't abuse our bodies with stress, drugs, too much hard work (I mean heavy lifting etc) and not enough sleep. Or fun!!! We don't play enough. Why as adults do we think we can't play? Like it is sacrilegeous or something. Maybe it is the work of some demon. Actually the demon is the one that makes you work. Remember when we had all that fun when we were little. Oh! it is true that you learn all you need to know in kindergarten. After that we forget those simple rules of humanity.

Watching Erin as she learns to smile and laugh. Watching her little face as she screws it up to make one more amazing face, I wonder..... Will she remember to have fun, eat well, treat herself with love and compassion and most of all just remember!... When she was a babe and life was simple. I certainly hope for that. I know I will try to help her with that. Live each day with love and hope. After all the present is all you have. Hugs and Love to all of you.