we built a fire and piled on sticks for about two hours while hearing his little voice ask a million questions and at the same time giving me his perspective on everything. and yes.. i'm a rich rich man to have another opportunity to be on the other end of all these inquisitive questions and conversations.
there's nothing better than watching how much joy he has playing in the dirt and before we left we decided to bait a hook and try our luck at catching a fish in the creek. just after we got there on Friday afternoon, we cranked up the weed eater and cleaned up around the creekbank. noah loves pretending to weedeat. the other night i walked up to the side of his bed to see the most remarkable thing. As I adjusted his covers, he woke up just enough to instantly hold out both arms to one side and started humming like a weedeater for about 5 seconds and then he fell back asleep. now i'm still laughing everytime I think about that.
me and noah took my mom to crackerbarrel to eat lunch and afterwards we went to walmart. after a father-n-son talk about how he can't always get a truck we found our way to the lawn and garden center to get a rake for my mom. while there we found a real shovel just his size and decided to get it. he was in heaven! just before we left we decided to go back and find my mom a broom and while walking past the toy aisles he softly said to me, "DAD look at all those toys" then he said, "oh but i don't need any toys, I've got a new shovel!" then all of sudden he raised both hands and said "praise the lord!" yeah, it was priceless!
just before we left on Saturday, we got the rod-n-reel and took a piece of raw bacon with us to the creek. he was so serious while helping me get the hook baited. and as soon as i dropped the line in the water and handed him the reel, a fish made the cork dissappear and it was like a movie in slow motion as I watched him pull in his first fish!
it was an amazing weekend and i'm so glad my mom is doing better and she got to witness all of this amazement firsthand. noah loves going to maw maw's house!
