Nature Boy

Aidan,

You love to say "ow-side"!

You love to be outside.

You just love outside.

And we love that about you!

Whether you're playing naked (that's you on the left),

or chillin' naked,

or swimming naked,

or playing with the hose, or planting rocks, or chasing the dogs, or helping yourself to the vegetables in the garden,

or running around in the rain like a maniac,

 

you just LOVE to be out with mother nature.

Just yesterday, you and your Mommy were out in the garden. She picked a whole bunch of fresh okra, and you ate it up. But, then again, you also eat mulberries..off the ground. At any rate, your mommy turned her back for a second and you had picked two green tomatoes. She was about to ask you for it, so we could let it ripen on the windowsill, but you took a big bite of it...and spit it out.

You're going to have SO much fun harvesting when more okra and red tomatoes and cucumbers and herbs are ready to go. But until then, you can keep gnawing on the leeks.

On Mother's day, after our big family BBQ, I wanted to take you to the park...we got ready to go, opened the door and it was pouring!

But that didn't stop you...You marched to the end of the porch and tested the rain with your hand. Within a minute, you were out there...playing in the rain. You were yelling "raining!" "wet!" "WET!" When you wandered into Luke's yard, I got volunteered to follow you, and follow I did! You were having a blast stomping in deep puddles and shuffling along little streams. "Raining!" Dorothy, our neighbor, saw you and said "Aidan, you look like a wet rat!" You replied, "rat!" "rat!"

No matter the weather, no matter the day, if there's an outside, that's where you'll want to play. "Park!" "Park! "PARK!" you say!

We love it that you want to be outside: it's so primal, so fun, so...childlike! And at a time when you seem to be growing up before our eyes, it's great that in the great outdoors, your sense of wonder is overwhelmed and you can be mother nature's child. We'll call it the 'wilderness of youth'!

I hope when you're all grown up, you'll still remember what it's like to be a nature boy. Though, you might not want to run around naked. That'll be frowned on.