Growing up . . .

A couple of weeks ago, Zeke asked if he could go to the bakery and buy some bread for his breakfast all by himself. As Zeke gets older we have seen some different parenting instincts between us. Whereas Tami is more likely to think, sure, go for it, Dan is a little more reserved. So, Dan walked Zeke to the bakery, taught Zeke what to say, and Zeke bought us bread.

Yesterday, Zeke again asked if he could go get us some bread for breakfast. This time Tami went with him. She stood across the street and let him go the rest of the way by himself. When he got to the bakery, he didn't weigh enough to open the automatic door! The baker came and helped him with the door and greeted him excitedly. A few minutes later, a proud little boy exited the bakery with two different types of bread, exactly what we had all asked for!

Later in the morning, we decided to let the kids play out in our enclosed garden on

their own. They are both pretty careful around cars, so again, Tami was going to let them walk themselves through the parking garage to the garden. But, Dan decided he would walk them out there and teach Zeke to use his cell phone to call us when they were ready to come in. About 10 minutes after they got out there we hear Zeke yelling at the cell phone. He couldn't get it to work. So, Dan called him and Zeke informed us there were stinging bees out there. About 5 minutes later, Zeke again couldn't get the phone to work and started yelling. Dan called him back and he said that Kaiyah needed help to get on the swing. Haha! So, the phone thing didn't pan out so well, but it was nice to get them outside a little even when we didn't have the time to take them!