Messages to Heaven

I actually posted this last week, but the post has disappeared for some reason. I guess blogger was having some issues, so I'm reposting.

Kaitlin is always asking questions about Harley and why he went to heaven and wanting to know if we can go visit him in heaven. Since she always points to balloons in the sky and says they are going to heaven, I thought she might like to send Harley a message via balloon. She colored this sweet picture of herself hugging Harley and I wrote a note to Harley on the back of it for her. It was so sweet and I got really choked up! I wanted to include Ethan so I printed out a picture of Ethan and Harley and wrote my own note on the back of it.


It's a little hard to read Kaitlin's message in the picture, but this is what it said: Dear Harley - I miss when you lick my hands and my sucking thumb. I wish you could come back. I wish heaven would make you unsick and throw you back down to our house. I love you, Kaitlin.

It is both fascinating and frustrating to see how children process things like death. It has been almost 10 months since Harley died and Kaitlin still talks about it all the time. I sort of thought that getting a new puppy would eliminate the Harley talk, but it hasn't. Every time Kaitlin tells someone about her new puppy, she tells them about Harley too.