August 15

Brady really likes to create, whether it be via weaving or baking or cardboard creature construction. 

So today, he created strawberry Jello. (He'd been asking to make some for a few weeks now and apparently mentioned the desire to Adam's mom when the kiddos spent the weekend with them last month, because she sent him home yesterday with a box of strawberry-flavored gelatinous goodness. So here we are.)

Anyway, if you've ever made Jello-from-a-box, you know it's a simple process, but it made him really happy to boil and chill and stir and refrigerate. And it made him really, really happy to open the fridge four hours later so he could sample his creation.

As I've said many, many times before (ad nauseum, in fact), the little things in life are really the big things. So today, I'm grateful that this little thing gave Brady so much joy.