For day 24, I knew I wanted to tell the story of some photos I took of David and Nathaniel. For the front page, I adhered this photo of David hugging Nathaniel.
On the back, I put three photos of Nathaniel and David playing and wrote journaling to Nathaniel about how incredibly lucky he is to have David.
Here’s the journaling:
Nathaniel, even though you are not aware of it right now, I want you to know that you have the world’s greatest brother.
Not only does he love playing with you but he puts up with all of your curiosity and torture. Today, you crawled up to him, grabbed his nose, stepped on his face, and twisted his arm but all he did was laugh and encourage you on with giggles and hugs.
I hope that when you grow up and start taking his things and going through his drawers, he will exercise the same level of patience and love that he feels for you today.
(Wishful thinking, I know.)
Regardless of how things change as you grow up, it is one of the biggest joys of my day to get to watch you play together, David giggling, and your belly laughs. Even though, I yell at David to stop running around and screaming, I know he does it solely to enterain you because, like me, he loves watching you laugh. He loves getting and keeping your attention. He loves hugging you.
I am aware of what a pure joy it is to have the two of you. But you are still too young to tell how lucky you are and I know that things might change as you both grow older so I wanted to make sure we have records of days like this where you can see all that you did to your brother and how very much he loves you.
You are one lucky boy to have him.
