Work has totally kicked my booty these last few weeks - all for good reasons, I think - but stressful nonetheless. I was at work today, and Josh came out with Matthew to visit before we all went home together - Matthew was a shy little charmer - it is amazing how our gregarious son is so shy around new people. Watching him learn and the little light bulbs in his head go off is really cool - it is like he is our own little science and psychology experiment. He saw someone put money into a soda machine, press a button, and then a soda came out. As it happens, Matthew is kind of in love with sodas (I don’t know why; I let him taste a little of my diet Coke and his face screws up into a grimace, but I think he likes the bubbles) so he immediately scrambled out of my arms, went over to the machine and inspected it. He pressed a button and put his hand into the slot and waited for a soda to pop out and looked all up in the slot trying to figure out why no soda came out.

Stuff like this - watching him figure things out, play with the dogs, squeal with laughter - this is what makes parenthood cool.

(I will forget happily about the snot that runs from his nose like a faucet. Seriously, this boy is keeping Kleenex in business.)