Middle child

Once-baby, now-middle-child Lars is just as funny and sweet as ever but lately he's been a little more needy too.

At the waterpark today, while Theo and Ida ran around and played, Lars spent almost the entire time on the lounge chair with me. Sometimes doing this.

And sometimes doing this.

He didn't know I was surreptitiously taking pictures.

He's always been my snuggliest child but lately he's been ALL over me. And a bit naughty too. So I'm trying to cut him some slack and pay more attention to him.

A few Lars-isms of late- (actually these are all pre-Polly but I am just now posting them)

- Is there stuff underground that's hard that keeps the road up?

- Something fell down in my skin and I had to go pee.

- When women's hearts get bigger and bigger, then they cry.

- This looks like a old part of you. (said while pinching my wrinkly elbow skin)

- If a dinosaur with red eyes looked at you, it would make you dead.

Sweetest middle child of all time: I'm sorry I yelled at you tonight when you were being purposely naughty and ignoring my instructions for the millionth time. You seemed really surprised, even though you knew you were being naughty. In a way I'm glad you were so surprised. 

(Lars doesn't know that I'm a recovering yeller. Hopefully he'll never know.)