Go Sign

Glad you’re all enjoying the counting video (and that it works!). I was writing to a friend recently about how Deacon’s doing and was reflecting on how “busy” he is. He runs around trying to get his hands, feet, head, whole body into or onto whatever he can…all the time. "Keep your hands to yourself, little boy...." "Sorry lady..."

While this can be a pain, it's great to see him so carefree. We have a HUGE confiscated stop sign in the RD office and as soon as he enters our offices, he says "stop sign!" and wants to run into the other office to see it, touch it, hit it, read the letters. “S!!” I guess at some point he'll learn that you can't just run and do whatever you want but it's fun now, mostly. "Dad, can I please go and see the stop sign?" would be (will be?) good and somewhat bad to hear.* In some ways, I can’t wait to not have to chase him around but developmentally, I think he’s where he needs to be- exploring, getting into stuff - it's how he’s learning. He’ll spend the rest of his life actually stopping at stop signs and learning it’s not OK to do this and that.

Don’t get me wrong, I can’t wait for him not to be so “carefree” and to actually "walk" around or sit still for longer than a 30 seconds. I guess what I’m saying is that although it’s a pain, it’s not all that bad and sometimes a joy to witness. It’s a good reminder to find those areas of our lives in which we need to be more carefree.

*guys at Geneva- this sign won't be here that long right? ...right?