And Then He Was Four

 Well, it was a positively gorgeous weekend, blazing sunshine, honest-to-goodness hot weather at points and bright blue skies. Not a bad way to celebrate turning four!

We went into the city and strolled around, enjoying the cheery feeling of New York in the spring, took in the circus, bought sidewalk churros and "smelled the flowers." (just like Ferdinand)

Then on our way home we stopped at the local skate shop and A won Coolest Dad of the Year by buying Ru a genuine skateboard, deep desire of his heart for a year or so now. He was a pretty happy boy.

We rolled into our own parking lot in front of our unit and found birthday packages on the stoop to carry indoors with us...and then on to birthday cake, music, present opening and jolly well-wishing birthday phone calls. He slept pretty deeply that night.

And now he's four! Four! I can't believe it! For his birthday he got a camera, a skateboard, a pair of sunglasses and some gardening tools (among other things).

I have suddenly reached the point at which my children start accumulating their own "stuff." We've largely been free of that until now. There are assorted toys and books but nothing of any great quantity belongs to either child, just their special animals they sleep with pretty much. I am going to have to figure out where individual kids special belongings can live. I am not prepared for this...time to mentally and physically re-arrange for the kid stage instead of baby/toddler world.

Today Was Really Beautiful

Lots to savor tonight as I slip off to dreamland....it was a wonderful last day for my oldest boy to be three. Sometimes life feels impossibly lovely. Sweet dreams Ru!

In The Clink Together

They had their first joint time-out session this week. Big stuff. You can see it was very popular. So, typical "them," my tender-hearted little flower and my spitfire rebel, side-by-side in shared misery. Sure did make for a good picture though, eh? Extremely hard to take without glamorizing their transgressions or bursting into riotous laughter. Sweet, silly boys.