Boys

As the weather starts to warm up a bit, I think I'm just discovering what it means to have boys, and more importantly what it means to have two boys. I can think of numerous events that all happened today to share with you that might shed a bit of light on the situation, but I think this video says a lot. I started shooting it to show just how much Christohper loves water. Daniel had dumped his little water container on the deck, and Christopher was having a blast jumping in the tiny little puddle left behind. Well, as Christohper discovered 30 seconds later, there was a much bigger puddle around the corner for him to jump in. Christopher's most frequent word these days is 'outside' because he is always asking to go outside, from the time he wakes up until the time he goes to bed, the request is continually, "Outside?" I'm still on the fence on how I'm going to handle the whole clean clothes or dry clothes issue this summer. Between the sandbox and the hose, which by the way has been outlawed as of today, the boys are always relatively dirty. We've only been playing outside for a week at this point. I'm wondering if I can put a mister/shower gauntlet on the deck to just shower down everyone before they enter the porch. Needless to say, the boys are thrilled to have a yard to play in and each other to play with. Christohper is mastering climbing the fort and sliding down the slide, and Daniel is trying his best to do the monkey bars. He has a long way to go.

As a side note, Christopher is very interested in Daniel's potty training efforts and enjoys participating in the underwear wearing part of the game. Come to think of it, he usually gets a sticker every time Daniel uses the potty, and also gets whatever Daniel chooses as a special snack or treat. Hmmm, maybe Christopher is seeing the cause and effect here, and is just being supportive for Daniel. I can see his mind working now, "Daniel, if you use the potty, I get cheese puffs. Come this way, I'll show you what to do." Then he walks to the potty, opens it, and sits on it.