This Just In

Really wasn't planning to post anything today. Figured people are barely keeping up as it is and soon I'll start getting all those 'I don't know how you find the time' messages. But this just happened in my living room about an hour ago and I'm still in shock:

Just for fun

me. age 2.

Melt-my-heart

I know everybody else thinks THEIR kids are the cutest on the planet, but seriously - how did our kids get to be SO darn cute?

Happiest baby on the block

punch drunk happy:

Not likely to be an astronaut

Sawyer continues to be afraid of everything new. Today we went to a little kiddie festival in Lancaster Courthouse and while every other toddler we know ran straight into the moon bounce with giggling fits of hysteria as they fell all over themselves, Sawyer refused to so much as cross the threshold. Our typical response to this kind of fear is to, say, thrust him through the mesh door kicking and screaming assuming that he'll suddenly realize that its something FUN we are trying to make him do. That face-your-fears-son tactic never seems to help. After all the kids had moved on to the petting zoo, Sawyer returned alone to the moon bounce. He got in, spent about five minutes sitting on the inflatable floor and then another ten minutes just standing, getting a feel for the thing. Whoa! Whoa!! he said with each tiny move he made. He was having so much fun NOT jumping I finally had to bribe him with candy to get him to come out. Oh, and I learned something new about myself today. I'm not above bribing a kid with candy to avoid a scene in public.