Captain Underpants

Little boys.

To all you mothers of sons, all I have to say is 'little boys' and you know exactly what I'm talking about.   They're silly, and naughty, and adventurous, and aggravating, and sweet, and totally hilarious all at the same time.

I have so much to learn from my little guys.  Things like how it's important to have fun and laugh. It's good for the soul, I say.

It would have been so much more responsible of me to take Christian inside to pee instead of just letting him pee off the side of the hot tub last night, but it would have been a lot more boring.  Plus, we all had a good laugh out of it. 

I could have just said 'no' to ice cream last summer because the ice cream truck had already come by, but it was so much more fun to chase it for 8 blocks and try to catch it.  Plus, the SpongeBob SquarePants ice cream bars tasted so much better. 

The bathtub rule could be 'no splashing,' but instead it's 'only splashing with the curtain closed.'  Yes, water still gets on the floor, but it's a really great excuse for me to clean the floor.  Win, win. 

Now, don't get me wrong.  I tend towards being boring and grown up way too often.  I say 'no' much more than I say yes for really no reason at all and my children do have many, many rules.  But when I look back at my best memories, it's when I chose to look at life through my children's eyes and live life that way just for a moment or two.  I love their belly laughs and their silly jokes and how I always pause what I'm doing to listen to them laugh together.  Parenting is hard, but these moments make it all worth it.

A couple nights ago, I was having a gloomy January day until Christian came downstairs with four pairs of underpants on his head.  We all laughed off and on for the rest of the evening.  I still giggle when I think of it.

The color orange makes Christian happy.  When he got dressed this morning, he told his brother 'Jacob, this sweatshirt makes me look super cool.'  Even as I was preparing to write this post, I looked up and he was sitting in a bucket with his super cool orange sweatshirt and Batman mask on.   He was happy and quite content. 

I guess my point to this disjointed post is to remind myself to have fun!   To find joy in the simple things like laughing with my children and wearing the clothes that make me feel super cool.