Talking with Seth

Tonight it was storming, so I lay down with Blane until he got sleepy. Seth kept asking me if he could talk to Daddy. He will just have random conversations with Scott about his day or things that he's thinking about...I think he just loves to have a talk with another guy. Scott, unfortunately, was in the middle of a long phone conversation.

"Mom, can you come up and talk to me?" he asked. How could I resist?

He talked on, in that cute voice of his, he talked about how he was going to have a hard time choosing a Webkinz to buy on Friday (he's using birthday money) and that he was really sad that the chicks that his kindergarten class had hatched had to go back to the farm by the end of the week. Then he talked about randome fears of the dark, monsters, thunder and lightning (but he wasn't TOO scared, only a little bit!).

All this time I was lying beside him and he was on his side, with his face turned away from me. As he talked, I squinted my eyes and I could almost imagine a much smaller, little baby head and shoulders, just like I remember. But then when I open up my eyes, it's my big boy again.

Scott got off the phone and talked to Seth. Seth told him how he and Zac were going to pitch in money together to do a BOGO Webkinz deal at a store down the street, and how chicks poop when they get excited.

And now he's dozing sweetly, no doubt dreaming of little yellow chicks.