Remembering Together

One of the things that Jordan, Joshua and Sarah all love to do is look at picture books. That is doubly true if the pictures involve them. Mommy and Daddy both love to scrapbook - preserving memories - and the children enjoy looking at their past and hearing all of the funny stories. In fact, before Sarah and Joshua came home, they each got photo albums from home ... so the tradition starts early in this family.

Mommy has been spending a little bit of time at her scrapbook table and all of the children have watched her for the last few days. Finally, Joshua decided that he wanted to try it too. After an emergency run for more supplies, Mommy and Joshua sat down at the table together.

One of the wonderful gifts that we received when we brought Joshua home was a set of pictures of him as a baby. He loves to laugh at the pictures of him running with a balloon for a sword and a blanket for a cape as a little boy. He wanted to preserve these and Mommy and Daddy thought it was a great idea.

After a lesson with the tape and the cutter (I think he got tired of hearing "be careful" over and over and over) Joshua got to try his hand at the art of scrapbooking in his own book. With some help and supervision from Mommy, he took to it right away. It was great to watch the two of them sitting there as they spent the afternoon scrapbooking together.