he's not sick!!

He woke up happy this morning, no fever, no illness. He's been asking me to go to the circus all day, or rather, he's been saying "We go to circus tonight Mommy" all day. The state fair closes tonight, and we had so hoped to take him there, but it isn't going to happen. We are just not all well enough yet. Not to worry--the Alabama National Fair opens in a couple of weeks and it has a big circus. Does he really know what a circus is?

I put big boy underwear on him today and we went out to the porch to put puzzles together--what a beautiful day it was, especially here at the lake. On the porch, he happened to notice the garden hose lying there and he picked it up and said "It's a fire hose, here comes the water!" He worked it enough to where water actually did dribble from the end, much to his delight, and he shouted "get ready, here comes the water, I put out the fire!". He had to stop this for a minute so he could go find his firefighter hat and put it on, and then he came back and dribbled out more water. When he had gotten all he could to come out, he looked in the hose and said "all gone, I put the fire out". And then he peed through the shorts and underwear, looked down and saw more 'wet' on the porch floor, and said "see I put the fire out". I had to be careful not to make any of the 'fire hose' jokes that ran through my mind because I could see his mind already going there on his own.