Pieces.....

JT, there are certainly a lot of things I love about you.  I think of them as pieces of you. There are so many of them, and all of them make up the unique person of ...YOU!

One of those pieces is your playfulness.   Now I know...you are FIVE!   You are supposed to be like that.  But honestly, I think that even when you are 25, 45, 65 or even 105.....you will still have very important piece of playfullness in you.  

You make a game out of everything.  And yes, sometimes it gets you in trouble.  BUT.........there is also something amazing in that as well.   Today....you raced against the waves coming close to you on the shore.   You would run forward and quickly back, just in time to keep your shoes and feet dry! 

Then...you looked for seashells.   While you ended up with a few that you took home that were intact and one piece, it was the ones that were cracked and beat up you were most interested in.   You wanted to bring them home. You started trying to put some of them together to make them whole again!   Then  I  to convince you that the other shells were enough and to leave the cracked pieces behind.
   
 In the end, we did in fact leave  the cracked shell pieces behind.   You brought the three you got that were all intact.   They will sit in your room.   However,  I am almost certain that the next time we head down to Sarasota and spend some time at the little beachy area we did today....those pieces, or pieces very much like them, will find there way to your hands, and into your thoughts of yours.   And I promise next time....to let those pieces come home too!  For I know tonight as I sit here and write this to you, even those pieces are important.  For if I didn't have every single piece of you that makes you whole, I would certainly know it and miss it!