Mamie and Papi enjoy spoiling Elina and this time they've bought her an outside swinging chair... We sit outside in the courtyard nattering (not that I could understand everything she was saying lol), and swaying backwards and forwards with a slight breeze blowing through our hair... I feel captured by the moment...
until i try and attach her to the swinging chair by herself, and sooooooo didn't get how the ties worked.... the straps were crossed over and tight and nearly strangling the poor thing... thomas comes out the door and almost wets himself laughing at my poor effort, and then does the straps up in & second......
Another afternoon at the hospital, but this time Elina is a little less weary of the place.... It's hot so she's in her summer dress, and I haven't put her shoes on (she's very much like me & seems to prefer being barefoot)... I don't really think anything of it until one of the nurses tells me that she should have shoes on, and that I have to carry her to Mamies room.... Ahhhhh, my little hippy...
Tonton bought elina a fab toy... it's an elephant with a huge plastic trunk that blows out butterflies, which you then are s'posed to catch with a net.... Elina holds onto her net and stands looking up in utter amazement as the butterflies fly out the end of the trunk....
It's a shame that as adults we take the magic out of most things by looking for explanations.... I'm going to try and be more like Elina and just enjoy the magic of the moment when I can.... To try to stop over analyzing situations, comments, gestures.....
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