Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Sweet Boy

Sometime over the last couple of months the boys discovered Extreme Makeover Home Edition. They love it. This week's story was about a little girl who had an illness herself and had devoted herself to raising money for cancer research. About halfway through the family's story, he got a huge smile on his face, jumped up and down, and said (almost giddy), "Wow! This one is even worse than usual!" It was probably not good that I couldn't stifle my laughter at this point. He immediately burst into tears. "MOM - there is a kid PRACTICALLY DYING, and you think it's funny?" So, the lesson is, that he is empathetic enough to really feel for the family, and I realized he was so excited about the opportunity they had to HELP them. Poor kid. I'm not that great at helping him navigate his feelings, I guess!