Inhibitions of a 4 year old...

Last week as Wyatt and I drove home from day care, out of nowhere Wyatt asked, “Daddy, do you have hair on your butt?”………Wow! Where did that come from? He continued on,“Well I don’t have hair on my butt. I will show you when we get out of the car!” And you know I believe had we gotten out of the car at that moment he would have. A couple of weeks ago one of Wyatt’s friends came over to play. The boy hadn’t been in our house five minutes when he said, “Mr. Steve I got new underwear their Power Rangers see!” And with that he dropped his pants and there in front of me were a size four colorful pair of Power Ranger underwear!
What makes little boys do these things? I have no idea but it can be hilarious, shocking, sometimes embarrassing and some day they grow out of it. They do grow out of it right?

Speechless

Why are you my Father? Wow! You know kids can ask a lot of questions and, of course, some will catch you off guard…that was the case when Wyatt asked me, why was I his father. It doesn’t seem like that difficult of a question at first but when I tried to come up with a logical answer I was speechless, at least for a few minutes. I couldn’t give the common answer, “Because your Mother and I loved one another and when two people love each other …” That would not have been a good answer in this case so I said, “because God blessed me with you.” Not really the answer he was looking for. I then said that his mother and I decided together we wanted to have a little boy. That’s where the thinking of a four year old chimed in with “ Who is this little boy?” After a short laugh I said, “ It’s you, Wyatt, you’re the little boy and I love you.”
To which Wyatt replied, “ How much do you love me?” To the moon and back, more than anything else in the world.