Gentle, Gentle!

We have had several opportunities lately to practice being gentle. Since the weather has been so nice out we are seeing our neighbors more often and are finding more worms! One dear neighbor is a mostly-retired lady who has 2 adorable dogs who all obviously love our boys. Cutie Pie is getting quite a throwing arm on him as Sammy-boy will continually bring a ball to be thrown, and this was actually how Cutie Pie started playing with a ball way back when! He’s usually pretty gentle petting the dogs as we’ve been working with him for a while on this. Sweet Pea, well, he’s learning and often you can hear him whispering ‘genly, genly, genly’ as he tries so hard not to hit little Cathy, but pet her instead. Luckily she loves little tots!

On Sunday I posted a pic of Sweet Pea gently smelling a flower. Today this turned into ‘genly, genly’ as he swatted the flowers as hard as he could. He’s also quite adept at finding worms in our sandbox. Poor worms! Usually he’ll pick them up and give them to Cutie Pie, of course squishing them in the process. Today, however, he managed to put one in Cutie Pie’s hand alive! Cutie Pie and I reminded Sweet Pea to be gentle. He immediately started trying to pet it while saying ‘genly, genly’ then grabbed it and squished it, looking up at me with the biggest grin on his face, again saying ‘genly, genly’! It was adorable in it’s own way, but my heart goes out to those little worms he will find in the future. Wiggle away now, poor little worms – quickly as fast as you can!