I Wanna Be 3 Years Old Again

My little "Crash" will be 4 years old toward the end of November. This morning, after making me totally exasperated with his growling at me & "me so mad at you mommy" for wanting him to put on a jacket & socks & shoes to go outside before 8:00AM on a crisp Autumn morning in the Pacific Northwest, he stated 5 minutes later, "me willy wuv you mommy, whowe, duper much". I am loving seeing life through his eyes!

Here in this state, the unofficial motto is: "If you don't like the weather, wait 5 minutes". The same can be said for the emotions of my 3 yr old. I had mentioned that his socks didn't match (1 was patterned with some yellow on it & the other was completely white) and that 1 sock had a hole in it with his big toe popping out. He said quite non-shalantely, "yeah, me know, me like it dat way dow". Do have any idea how convenient that would be, how liberating, as adults if we could just wear pajama bottoms to work with a dress shirt or a fuzzy slipper on 1 foot & a flip flop on another because, we like it that way? How totally unencumbered life could be. We can color the sky red & green, with blue grass, we can eat gummy fruit snacks for breakfast & cookies for dinner & a full course dinner for lunch if we want. Pancakes without chocolate chips would be unheard of. The only thing in the world better than Sesame Street would be watching it with a friend with your heads hanging upside down over the edge of the couch. The only worry would be whether we needed to go to the store for more strawberry or chocolate milk mix or not. The only requirement that you would be nagged about would be to remember to wipe, flush & wash when in the bathroom. Otherwise, as my oldest son's first baby sitter's daughter use to sing, "Don't worry, be happy, toys are in the toy box"!!!

Yup, I really wanna be 3 years old again & I'm already mourning the loss of that age in my little guy too, even though it isn't for another 2 months. Dear Readers, today I wish you your own remembrances of 3 years old and whomever your higher power be, Be Blessed!