Walt Sleeping

I just think pictures of sleeping children are so cute! This picture of Walt sleeping with his thumb in his mouth made me think of my brother Kurt (I also sucked my thumb, but this is the way that Kurt would place his pointer finger on his nose just like Walt in this photo).

A funny story about Walt...last week I went outside to check on Walt. I found him with only a shirt on playing in the hose with some mail that he hands me which is not ours and was soaking wet. I instantly slap his hand and he asks in his cutest 2 year old voice, "Why?" And continues to say, "why" while I'm trying to explain to him why I slapped his hand. I put the mail in the sun in hopes for it to dry out a little before I go tell the neighbor what had happened to his mail. While I go gather his shorts and diaper that he left in the gutter in the mud I start to understand what Walt was doing. I realized he went to get the mail (I'm still not sure why he got the neighbors mail, because they live over a half acre away), but while getting the mail he must have dropped it in the mud and decided to be a big helper and wash it off. I quickly realized why my innocent 2 year old was so confused at me slapping his hand. There is still so much for me to learn as a mother. I need to do better at seeing things through my children's eyes before I quickly over react.