Happy Belated Birthday, Chill

Happy Birthday, dear. I've never known anyone as excited to be one year closer to senior citizen status as you. Strange but somehow inspiring.
I <3 U

Human Lightning Rods

So, last night I hear Bryan walk out the door and say "Boys, that's not funny! Don't ever do that again." I run to see what they are doing and this is what I see: Mason, 9, and Eli, 8, standing in the driveway each holding a golf club straight up over his head while lightning flashes in the background.



This is not unusual behavior for Mason. He has spent his entire life amazing us with his "accident" prone behavior. It does bother me that he talked his usually rational brother, Eli, into participating in this stunt.

• It started with the bottle of benadryl he drank when he was 2.
  
  
• Not long after he pulled a large glass of water off the bar onto hardwood floor. There he stood in the middle of broken glass and slippery water.
  
  
  
• Then there was the time he got a 'stretchy' ball wrapped around his neck so tightly he turned blue. His dad and I were only a few feet away when this happened.
  
  
• The time he broke his arm (in our backyard) trying to climb a chain link fence on a large exercise ball.
  
  
• The time he and a friend were in an battery powered car and he decided to stick a large limb (wedged into the ground on one end) in his mouth just before his friend started to drive. The limb jammed into the roof of his mouth. It barely missed the soft spot.
  
  
• The time he and Eli found wooden dowels and pretended the ceiling fan light in their room was a pinata.
  
  

This is only a partial list. I hesitate to even post these things because it sounds like I don't watch him closely enough, but all these things happened while I was watching him. I'm going today to get the book Wild at Heart. Maybe this will help me understand these odd creatures called boys.