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Magical Moments
Precious Memories from Our Children Come in Big and Small Sizes
By I.J. Schecter
will destroy you. It's the smaller ones that stand out, those that show Bram's creativity and innocent wit. Once I walked into his room to find he had climbed up on top of his dresser. I asked him how he got there. He said, 'God put me here.' All I could do was laugh."
Joel's wife, Rochelle, fondly remembers a moment that similarly demonstrated Bram's ingenuity. "We were having dinner at a restaurant, and he saw a birthday cake being delivered to a lady at a nearby table," she says. "The next thing I knew, he was using the crayons and construction paper I'd brought to the restaurant to make her a birthday card, selecting the appropriate stickers from the set I'd also brought – cakes, candles, party hats. Before I could say anything, he'd marched over to her table and presented the card. The reason? To get a piece of her birthday cake, of course."
And there are the moments in which your child's simple, pure enjoyment of life moves you so deeply it hurts – moments that remind you of their freedom and imagination, of how full of possibility their universe is. "We were at a street festival recently," says Stuart, father of 21-month-old Samantha. "And Sam just walked up to the bandstand out of the blue and started dancing, even though no one else was dancing anywhere nearby. She kept dancing for 40 minutes. I couldn't stop smiling, and when I realized what it signified to me, I became very emotional: she felt like dancing, so she danced. That's something children possess that we lose a bit of as adults. I got choked up because I never want her to lose that spirit."
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