Clark is 6 months old.

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BIG BROTHER

Charlie is an excellent big brother to Clark. He is always looking after Clark and protecting him. Whenever Charlie receives a treat he wants one for his brother "hermano" as well. He loves to play with Clark and make him laugh especially by jumping up and down. At first the transition to have a new baby in the house was hard for Charlie but you can really tell now how much he loves his little brother. In fact the other week I was asked to give a talk in a Stake Relief Society Activity about the pioneer women who crossed the Plains to the Salt Lake Valley. Leo and Charlie came along so that they could here me speak. For this talk I decided to share personal journal entries of some of these women. One of the entries I shared was from a woman who was staying in Winter Quarters with her five month old baby. For lack of food this women contracted scurvy. She was so ill that she stopped producing breast milk and could no longer feed her baby. They didn´t have fresh milk either so with 5 months the baby had to survive eating corn bread, but eventually the baby died. As I thought about this women´s struggle and in my own baby, of course I started to cry. (I wasn´t the only one. Later Leo told me that he cried a little as well. Upon seeing me cry as well as his Dad, Charlie was crying a little too). Charlie didn´t say anything to me about my talk but after we got home from the activity, Charlie asked me for a glass of water. He drank a little bit and then he looked at me and gave me the cup. He said he didn´t want any more and I asked him why. He looked at me and said, "Here, you drink it, so that you have milk for Clark" and then walked away as if it were nothing. But I knew it was a perfect example of....

True love of a BIG BROTHER!