Saturday, May 05, 2007

Splashing

I took my boys for a walk today, down to the 7-11. It's been raining steady for a few days, and the soccer field behind our house is a lake, and there's puddles all over the place.

My boys are 3 and 5. You can see where this is going, right? They LOVE splashing in puddles. Huge grins on their little faces, and stompy feet. Jasen pulls at my arm whenever we get near water, and leaps in with great gusto.

Connor walks along normally, until suddenly he's in a puddle. Then he grins and gets foot-stompy until the puddle is gone. He's always looking, and he sees the puddles. He just can't connect from "seeing a puddle" to "splashing in a puddle". He may never be able to make that connection.

So I steer him into the puddles. Today, I make the connection for him. Maybe someday I won't have to.

James

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