Building Homes

Lately as we venture into the forest by our home Reece has been building homes for his friends. These friends change from day to day. One day it is a home for the frogs, the next day a home for the forest fairies and then another day a home for Clara. He collects little bits of nature and gets busy creating.

Watching him create, seeing how his mind is working and witnessing the pure joy he gets from this experience is amazing. One morning Justin and I sat back and watched for about 45 minutes while Reece went about creating the perfect home for his friends. We whispered quietly from a distance so we would disturb him. He asked us to help find a few things, so we jumped up happy to share in his experience. Then we went back to our spot and watched.

It was magical.

The next morning I ran these lovely trails and had to take a little stop by the "frog home". It had been disturbed, how exciting! I headed home and suggested it might be a good time to take Shelby for a walk. Reece agreed and asked if we could stop by the "frog home" to see if it had been used. I answered with a very excited "of course we can!"

You can imagine his pure delight upon noticing his little "frog home" had been slept in.

This delight lead him to more creating, another home had to be built, but not too close to this one. So we hiked a little bit more until he found the perfect spot and he got busy building another home.

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