This recent resurgence of Peter Pan philosophy was sparked by the birth of our precious great nephew, Aiden. Our family of four went to visit the newest Johannes arrival last week and ever since, Matthew has reverted to his post-Nolan fears.
We had a long talk this weekend about the advantages and disadvantages of growing up. I'll give you one guess who listed the advantages and who argued the disadvantages. I have to hand it to him -- he does have a point. There are a lot of perks to being young. You get tons of attention. Everyone does everything for you. You have minimal responsibility and pretty much just play all day.
Matthew is extremely concerned that he will outgrow his toys. What if he gets too big for his baseball tee? Or his Little Tykes car? He declared that he will drive that little car forever, nothing else. If he needs to go somewhere, like Target, he told me that he will just have me drive him in my car. He has it all figured out.
There are a lot of perks to growing up too. Matthew is not fully convinced yet, but there are.
We experienced one of them Sunday afternoon. We found Matthew a bike on Craigslist. It's a 14" frame with training wheels. He hopped right on and didn't want to get off. Even to drive it home. He's been pedaling all over the neighborhood the last two days.
I seized the opportunity to point out the great benefits of getting older. He couldn't disagree, so instead he muttered, "But this is the only thing I'm gonna like about it!"Okay, buddy.
Tomorrow he starts Preschool. I'm pretty sure he's going to love it like he loves dinosaurs. And his new bike. Hopefully he'll decided that maybe he can just like that part of getting older too.
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