One of my favorite things is watching the boys experience something new. I love watching them learn and explore their world. Another one of my favorite things is when they come into contact with that which they have experienced before with the same sense of novelty and wonder as they did the first time.
Like fireflies.
Every summer they come out glittering and glowing, these beautiful twinkling lights on warm nights. Every summer the boys have renewed excitement, "Fireflies!" Off they go to catch them.
Ryan is retaining knowledge about them now. "Did you know fireflies flash their light in a pattern?" He will ask me. Then he will inform, "It's how they find a pretty girl firefly."
On the wings of catching fireflies, Dylan's favorite bed time story this summer has been, "Sam and the Firefly." This has been the first year he was old enough to sussessfully catch fireflies.
The fireflies will go away again very soon. We see their twinkling lights less already than we did last month. But we will look forward to next summer when they come out and twinkle again.
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