This afternoon, I had the twins all to myself. We strolled the neighborhood, we played, we danced for a bit and had dinner together.

Usually, at bedtime they prefer if Mami reads to them and tucks them in. It had been a few weeks since I had the opportunity to do so. Olin fell asleep first. Luca had taken a nap earlier and wasn’t quite ready for bed. At some point he started recounting his memories of the day: animals, cars, songs, things. He practiced saying certain words a few times over and also translating them from Korean to English. When he was done with his “diary” he did something that brought tears to my eyes: he slowly went through the names of each of his Korean relatives one by one.

HRM had mentioned that he did that occasionally before sleep. But it was something else to actually hear his voice saying their names in the darkness, so sweet and so full of love.