a boy and his pigs.....and a bunny

yesterday i got the sweet privilege to watch my little grandson finley for a good chunk of the day.  he is just the sweetest thing.  so funny and so very smart.  he really can talk up a storm and he talks all the time.  one of his favorite things are pigs.  he played with some fisher-price little people pigs all day.  occasionally he would play with something else but always brought the pigs along too.  he cooked in the play kitchen and fed his pigs some...bacon.  who knew they liked it?  everybody else does so pigs can too!  just watching him it made me think when does a little boy (or girl) lose this love of something that they play with.  that attachment to a toy.  i don't know one adult who totes around a rag doll or a truck or a blankie from place to place.  but i see kids doing it.  i see parents fussing about it.  i don't really see grandparents fussing about it....we know it is gone too soon.  watching finley play with his pigs and occasionally pick up his bunny lovey blanket to sniff every now and then was just precious.  just a boy and his pigs and bunny.  no electronics or batteries needed.  just making the pigs walk around a barn, eat some bacon, jump in a truck and then good ole bunny to just smell for a second then place back down by his little side.  i think bunny must smell like home.  makes me wish we all had a bunny when the stresses of life cave in.  nothing is comfort like home.  i can't base this on anything Biblical at all.  not one bit of scripture backs this theory up but i do believe that God might just keep our bunnies, loveys, dolls, blankies our whatevers....for our homes in heaven.  we won't need them but just that thought that He cares for us so very much that something that brought us such comfort as a baby would be something i think the Lord Jesus would keep.  sounds so very silly, i know but watching my little boy and his pigs and his bunny.  not so silly at all....



just resting his little head

has his pigs in his hands ready to play

come on mommy pig....let's go play

carefully watching them between his knees

brought in his hippo to play for a while

getting ready to introduce a cow to the group

time for a quick snuggle of bunny

bunny sniffing is our fave

these days will be gone far too soon.  replaced with baseball, football, running around outside, school, cars and growing up way too fast.......give me a boy and his pigs and his bunny any old time