But we always try to make the best of it! This time around Nate picked out two animals for the kids and had his voice recorded with a message that they can press. We also blew up some pictures of them together to put on their closet doors, and he made another video with him reading and singing for them to watch. Here are some pictures from the night before he left when he gave Claire her turtle. He named her Tabby. He got Jacob a monkey named Mookie. The kids think they are great! My good friend Meredith left this basket on my porch the day Nate left! It was sweet and filled with goodies for the three of us. It was a great surprise :)
Add on: I found this picture of the kids watching their Daddy video. If you look close you can see that Claire is following along in her nursery rhyme book while he is reading/singing. This is a book they read together every night and she LOVES it. He gets all into the songs with actions and stuff.
2 comments:
Meg, it breaks my heart! Can't imagine being without Josh. You guys are amazing!
Just found this one. Can you tell me when he'll be back and where he is? I think I know the answer to "Can you tell..." already! You know that the children and I have "been there, done that" about a million times, so you are always in my thoughts. It never got better no matter how many times there were, but I would go "back there" in a heartbeat and do the whole thing all over again, deployments and all.
Keep us posted on the pregnancy and everything else!
Love, Carole
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