Jace loves being outside. Always has. When he was first born, often the only way we could get him to calm down if he was upset was to take a walk around the block. Our daycare provider has a backyard that they go play in and he loves sitting outside in the stroller, watching the big kids run around.

So last weekend it FINALLY stopped raining. I decided to take Jace outside to play for a little while because I was so sick of being cooped up inside each weekend. We put on his little baseball cap and walked down the driveway and around for a few minutes until I decided that he was just too heavy. We went into our little backyard and sat down on the grass. Jace then spent the next couple of minutes trying to figure out if he could balance on his butt and lift both feet in the air at the same time. Turns out he is afraid of the grass!!!

He quickly realized that balancing wasn’t going to work and crawled into my lap and sat there quite contentedly. This is a kid who doesn’t like sitting still and will crawl off your lap about 2 seconds after you pull him in for a cuddle. This time he didn’t make a move. He refused to budge. Even when I tried to get him to stand up (his favorite activity these days), he immediately tried to climb all over me like a little baboon. Guess I know where to go next time I want a cuddle from my squirmy little boy.

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