Growing

It's fascinating to watch Rand's emotional and cognitive development as he gets older. This week provided some really fascinating insights:

Rand accidentally bumped Ella and she fell off the couch (onto a pillow, thankfully). He felt so bad that he was crying harder than Ella was.

For the first time, Rand asked where he came from. He also wanted to know what would've happened if some of our friends would have been his parents.

We had a rough karate lesson on Tuesday and I left feeling pretty grumpy. Rand asked, "Mom, why are you mad at me?"

Rand lied for the first time. We had a nice chat about truth and lies and what that all entails.

He is starting to learn that his actions and words influence other people -- this is mostly a positive thing, and it certainly makes for an interesting week.