Taste of Life

Dear Gabriel,

So right now you have 2 favorite movies - 'Cars' and 'Bolt'. You are watching 'Bolt' right now and loving it. Laughing at the adventure. Loving the dog. Giggling at the hamster and cat... It is adorable to see how real these figures are in your life. You do the same thing with the characters of 'Cars'. You talk about the cars and say their names as if they are a part of your everyday life experience. The imagination you have inside of your life causes everything around you to have a taste we adults have forgotten.

To me it is such a good reminder of how impressionable you are. All of these things in the movie are so real to you - and it is the same with everything else in your life. Your tender heart just soaks everything up with the openness only a child can have. Your sense of imagination is growing faster and faster everyday. Don't ever lose that.

Don't lose your openness and your willingness to soak up everything. When I remember to learn like you do, soak everything up around me like you do and make it all so real, then life has a taste that is magnificent. My imagination starts to come alive again. My sense of the adventure of life comes back with everything around me. I love it.

And I love you,

Your Mom