It's A Great Day To Be A Baby!

This is the phrase Dan uses when Alex is having some kind of wonderful time. And today was just that!

We went to visit friends Karla and Marc who live up on K-Bay (Kaneohe Bay). Their house actually has a deck that sticks out into the Bay. The Blue Angels were doing an air show at the Marine Corps base right across the bay, so their deck was the perfect place to sit and watch the show.

We knew the airplanes were going to be a hit. We'd told Alex that we were going to see planes, and he happily stuck out his arms and ran around the house making "Vrooooommmmm!" noises. But little did we know that Karla and Marc actually had several surprises there for us! Not only did they have planes flying overhead doing tricks, but they also had kayaks in their boat house, a sail boat and a "dingy" as Karla described it attached to their dock, plus they had a super-friendly shaggy dog named Salty. PLUS, there were other boats either rowing or sailing by all the time. Oh my, oh my!! Alex couldn't contain his excitement. Every second it seemed that something else had him just jumping for joy.

"Mommy! BOAT!"

"Wow, Alex, another boat?"

"Mommy! PLANE!"

"Oh, the planes are still up there?"

"Mommy! DOGGY! BALL!"

"The doggy is chasing the ball?"

And this went on for hours! It is really fun to your kid so happy about the world, and that he is so happy he wants to share it all with you, too.

Sometimes I sigh and say absent-mindedly, "Oh, you see another truck?" as we drive along and I hear "MOMMY! TRUCK!" from the back seat yet again, but sometimes he really does make me slow down and appreciate something that I haven't noticed or appreciated in a long time...like....

"Mommy, look! Bug." And we stop to stare at a little lady bug on a leaf. If I'm not in too much of a hurry (OK, when does that happen?!?!) we'll sit and stare and enjoy the magic of that little bug.

Or, even better, "Mommy, look! Poop!" And we both stop to stare a pile of dog poop that someone has failed to clean up.

Thanks for helping me see the important stuff that I usually overlook, kiddo.