When Grant Met His Best Friend, or, When The Whites Came to Philly

Grant is surrounded by females.

Surrounded.

Here at Harvest Bible Chapel-Philadelphia, we have a surplus of adorable little baby girls. They fill the nursery with pink, and bows, and adorable giggles and screams.

Someday my son will be very happy about this ratio.

But for right now, it means that he doesn't have a "best friend" in the nursery.

Granted, he's one year old, so, let's be honest, does he even really care?

No, probably not.

But when the first weekend of January blew in some old friends, Kelli and Corbit White, and a little playmate, Louis, Grant reacted with surprising joy.

My child has been largely oblivious of other children. He watches them calmly. And then proceeds to ignore them.

However, with Lil' Louis, Grant became totally, immediately, irrevocably attached.

He smiled when Louis woke up. He laughed when Louis laughed. He even started coughing so that he could sound like Louis (who had a horrible head cold that he generously shared with Grant). They sat together at meal time, they followed each other throughout the house, they played side-by-side. Grant would cry when it was time for Louis to go to bed.

They became buddies.

And while Louis will grow-up in Germany, and Grant will have to settle for being near a "Germantown," I'm sure that their friendship will continue to grow... Because when their mommies and daddies are such friends, do they really have any choice?

Louis was very vocal. Grant spent a large amount of time jumping and staring as a variety of sounds emanated from his more verbal friend.

Because don't we all just look at giraffe heads and think, "This should go in my mouth"?

So happy for playtime!

This was immediately before they both fought over the girly teething toy. Apparently, Grant is old enough to work on "sharing."

Buddies. 

Guess what we're going to do now, Mom?! We're dumping the blocks!

Grant: This is my Louis. He is my buddy. I will love him forever.
Louis: Dude, are you hungry?

I mean, did you ever see such an adorable lil' chunker!?

We enjoyed having the Whites (and briefly the Brownfields and their three little ones!) the first weekend in January. It was such a wonderful time of friendship and encouragement. I'm so incredibly thankful when this huge house can be filled up with people. It makes my heart happy...