Manly Bond

The little boy misses his dad real BAD.
On the surface, it doesn't seem like En care nor is even aware that PaPa is not here.

So it came as a surprise to us that day - 2 days after Papa has left.
Beneath our coffee table were 2 photo albums of our trip to France, one where I was 5 months pregnant with En.

We never know that En knows that those are photo albums. The albums had been in the same spot since before he was born and he had never taken them out to see them. Neither have we ever showed him those photos.

We also never know that En knows those albums held the most recent photos of his Papa.

But now we know all of that - 2 days after Papa left.

He lugged those albums which were too heavy for him. Struggling, lugging them onto the floor, En began to flip through the pictures. And pointing to every photo that has Papa in it, and saying aloud Papa to every photo.

That is how En misses his Papa. On some days, he can visit the albums up to 5 times.
That is some bond indeed.