Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Malachi Update


Well what do I say about this incessant delight that God has given us as a son. He continues to amaze and astound us on a daily basis. He is definitely learning that he will be raised by a community as people in the church come alongside us and show him a love that we in one way cannot show as his parents. This communal love is something that I pray will prove a great strength in years to come enabling him to relate to many others and work through things with others that he may not feel able to with us.
He remains blonde haired and blue eyed which is something that we were certain would have changed by now. He has learned to ‘parachute,’ which I am sure leaves you flabbergasted as you question, “What at such a young age?” Well... let me explain. It is the ‘parachuting’ motion, which for him for now is crawling. He literally balances on his stomach and can spin on a dime as he changes direction to drag himself from here to here. We really hoped he’d be crawling by 6 months, but now our hope is Christmas.
He is conscious of everything that exists down to minute detail. He will spot a small white piece of cloth on a carpet from about 3 metres and hunt it down to discover what it is. Put all his toys out on the floor and he will spend 5 minutes fixated on a tag hanging off a piece of clothing. Today in our ‘Morning with Malachi’ session he showed off his new trick which is as follows: He gets up on his haunches and shakes his head dizzily from side to side for no understandable reason and then of course looks at you to see if you are sharing in the wonder of this thing that only he must be able to do. It is the combination of these two things that I think makes it funnier. He does something that is completely random but then basks in his own wonder at how he is able to do something that surely no other person is able to do. Still not willing to burst his bubble.
He is legendary!

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