3 1/2

Sammy turned 3 1/2 yesterday. I told him he wasn't allowed to grow up. He looked troubled and concerned and put his hands up in question and said, "Why? I have to grow up! Why don't you want me to grow up? I want to be a man!"

I told him I liked him the way he was now, but that I would like him at any age.

"I have to grow up to be a man."

"What are you going to be when you are grown up then? A pilot?"

"No, an astronaut. But I want to be an astronaut now, a boy astronaut."

We love our little astronaut.