So before this blog gets off on too much of an all-fun-and-games note, let's make this clear. Everyday has moments. Stressful, "I want a golden goose NOW" moments. Luckily, most end like today's and make all of those moments totally worth it!
This afternoon Rocky and I were playing with the kids at a playground when we decided it was time to head to Burger King. Horrible, right? What kid would want to go there? Not Billy, as you can see. He'd be content climbing high enough on the gyms to scare himself silly all night long. So after coaxing him down from the giant caterpillar with nothing less than bribery and a round of counting to ten and deep breaths, we were headed to the car. No raised voices (aside from the serious solo performance atop the caterpillar) and a V-line (or is it B-line?) for the car. Success. Then Billy steers off course into the trees. No-I thought this was going so well. I asked what he was doing, and he said he needed to breathe. OK - he's calming himself down-that's good! And he can't breathe without the leaves, he says!
Touche! And I was worried he was sabotaging our caterpillar crisis intervention efforts. He's too smart for my own good! I'll have to give him a little silk leaf to carry in his pocket so he'll always have a ready supply of oxygen when he needs to calm down.
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