To Name Is To Claim

The joy of watching my kids make the world their own

Photo by William Milliot on Unsplash

I’ve never felt as full up with wonder as when I was watching my toddlers learn how to name everything in front of them.

I can still feel my daughter’s squirmy body shifting around on my lap as she tap-tap-tapped on the puffy green cloud perched on top of a popsicle stick in her ABC book and exclaimed, “Tree!”