After an already fantastic evening with my parents, enjoying the weather and our outside mall, Matthew spotted the fountain. My usually overly cautious boy jumped right in without hesitation. With all his clothes on. Without a care in the world.
He put his crocs on the spouts and waited for the fountains to spray, spending his shoes flying. The stunt never grew old. The event brought irresistible laughter. From all of us. Every single time. And every time, Matthew grew more and more wet. Until there wasn't a dry spot on him and he was shivering like an ice cube. (If ice cubes shivered - let's just pretend they do).
I scrambled for a makeshift change of clothing. My messy diaper bag came in handy. Saved the day, I may have proclaimed proudly. At the bottom I found a crumpled pair of shorts. Clad in those and Nolan's baby blanket, we carried our wet adventurer to the car. He was cuddly and happy as a clam. Assuming that clams are very happy little critters, of course.
Hooray for spontaneity.
Hooray for life.
Hooray for the heart of a child.
Thank God for moments like these.
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(And two more hoorays that are begging to be said:
1. Hooray for Spell Check. I had an embarrassing amount of errors in this post before I ran it. Including the word embarrassing.
2. Hooray for the camera feature on Bob's cell phone. )
3 comments:
Awwww, I love that he just went for it! My son is an overly cautious child so I totally understand the excitement that he just threw caution to the wind and jumped right in!
I love spontaneity and adventure ... so glad you were able to get a picture of Matthew's great time in the fountain. I never ever leave this house without my camera ... except the other day we were almost home, driving on the street before our street, and there were about a dozen large wild turkeys just ambling around by the side of the road. I was so stunned to see them, I forgot I had my camera with me! They were HUGE and would have made such a fun picture!
I know what you mean! I always wish our eyes had a built-in camera feature! We actually HAD our (resurrected) camera with us. But would you believe the batteries died on us? The cell phone came in handy, because I love looking at Matthew's happy face and remembering the moment.
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