My Boy Bubs

Okay, so the kid is only 19 months old. But how cute can one boy be? Yesterday, he's sleeping. He's SOOOO behind on his nap it's not funny. As soon as dad cranks the mower over, the kid is up and yelling, "out, out out!" He wants to go mow.

Now this is what dad has been waiting for. He was so patient for a couple hours for the boy to get a nap, cause let's face it, he likes having the boy on the mower as much as the boy likes being on the mower. So here's my two men out there with their floppy hats making laps around the yard. Every time they go by, Bubs waves. I'm sure he was yelling "hi" but of course that was only cause his mouth was open. (guess I should have grabbed that binki last round, cause now the coons will be the only ones able to find it.

Dad decides to give Mom a bit of fun with the boy so I'm now on the mower with the kid. Ahhh........it's MOM! Now he gets squirmy. How sweet is it when your boy lays his head on you. Awwwwwwwww.........he looks back and me and I plant a kiss on his forehead. He thinks this is funny and makes a game of it. Looks up, kiss. Look up, kiss.

Now he wants on my lap, wants to steer, pulls the choke down and almost kills the mower, runs it off the path, beeps the horn. (the horn doesn't beep by the way, but Bubs does) Then he's hanging off my arm over the edge. What the devil? I study him to discover that he's watching all the bugs, butterflies, grasshoppers as they run out of the way of the mower. He finds this hilarious.

Now, he's learned a new word, or is it two? Butt crack. And he knows where his is. There ain't a one of you out there that wouldn't laugh if you heard him say it while he pats his diaper. But what can I say. We were in the shower and he gives me a "surprise". "This?" he says innocently. YOW!

We took him to Holiday World where I discover one more time how unconveintional his dad and I are at parenting. We are in the wave pool. Each of us has an arm and we are allowing the boy to float in the waves, bobbing up and down. He's loving it. We're loving it. The woman next to me, whose body leads me to believe SHE ain't never had a kid, is GLARING at me. Hmmmm...........maybe she needs someone to hold her arms while the waves bob her up and down. Makes me wanna ask her, "do you need a hug?" Hehehehehehe.................

Then we take him to the kiddy playground where his dad and I are having a blast shooting people with water, dumping buckets on people, going down the slides with him and just being two overgrown kids ourselves. Now if we could have just taken him down the big people's water slides..........................