Wild Flower

Late getting the photo on Blip again. This is Tuesday's photo. It was swim lesson and soccer practice day for Ellie. She is delighted by the tiny wild daisies on the soccer field. She is holding the flower and taking the photo. I am amazed she got it to focus so well.

Ellie is starting to process the fact that we are getting old and she will have to deal with us dying someday...maybe sooner than she would like. She talks about the fact she won't always have me and that she will miss me. I have allowed her to express that freely and I have told her that I will always be in her heart because of her love. 

Tuesday evening she wanted to put on her ballet clothes and do a dance for us. She said, "Alexis, play Classical Ballet Music" and started her dance; when the music changed to a sad feeling she moved her hands as if she had tears and then she gracefully knelt down with her hands in a praying position, she gently wiped her eyes and then raised her arms up high and wide...she took out a few of her nearby building blocks and made a pointed tower surrounded by wood flowers...then she danced off. She told me that the dancer was sad because her great-grandfather had died and she had danced by his grave marker. But when she talked to my husband about it she said the dancer's uncle had died. Interesting how she changed it for him and that she related her knowledge that Uncle Ron may die too. 

I think watching the Moana movie about the grandmother dying has helped her to see death as a natural thing that a child can deal with in a positive way.