Loving Anna

Cousins are such beautiful things. I grew up with all of mine and have great memories of them. I'm so happy to see Alyssa loving her cousins as much as I did/do. This morning she awoke and came looking for Anna. She must've been dreaming about her because she was insistent that Anna was here and heart broken when I told her she wasn't and was actually at school.

Then later in the morning I was cleaning and caught Alyssa chanting "who's Anna". Confused, and thinking she was again asking "where's Anna", I told her she was at school and maybe we could see her soon. She continued and continued until I looked and saw she was holding a piece of artificial grass from my flower arrangement. It then dawned on me that she was praising God and chanting "Hosanna" in her own special way. She seriously thinks that the word Hosanna is asking who's Anna. "Thats silly" she said to herself. I love the childhood innocence that my children have and I hope they hold onto it for a long long time.