My favorite thing about Sophia at age 3 is that everything in her world serves as a prop for her imagination. This morning, she discovered that one of our dishtowels has the ability to make you fly! Water bottles become coffee when she plays daddy and goes to work. Her stuffed animals are students in her classroom. Her baby brother becomes … a dog, an airplane, a boxing partner, her butler, Gus Gus the mouse, her baby, at one point, I think he was even a piece of fruit.
Oh Lord, preserve her curious and playful spirit, and give Gretchen and I the wisdom to let it flourish.

July 15, 2008
Tuesday at 2:24 pm
I praise God every day for the amazing imagination my daughter still has at age 15, and pray that she will never lose it. When she was about Sophia’s age, she staged the Beanie Baby Nativity - I’ll never forget that.