Best Buddies

I was going through my pictures and found this one....oh this is good stuff. So let me explain...Blake and Molly were over and Blake was going to take all four boys to the splash park so that Molly and I could have some quiet time with Sadie & Luke. Our boys are constantly asking to do things just like the other one. For instance, sweet Owen wanted to cut his hair short like his cousin Max...and it does look adorable on him. And this day, Max asked me if he could go to the splash park without a swim shirt on like Owen gets to. So, I told him yes he could but he needed to put on sunscreen. Apparently, I got a little carried away and when he stepped away from me, I realized he had WAY too much on. Molly, Blake and I just died laughing...the kind where you almost wet your pants...tears were rolling down our eyes. Oh, and Owen insisted he had on sunscreen on too! You can see sunscreen on the wall behind them...it was rubbing off on anything they got next to. So my next bright idea was to put them all in jackets (in the middle of the summer) so they wouldn't get sunscreen all over my car. So off they go to the splash park with their heavy sunscreen and jackets! Poor Max, he can't see he has so much on!

I love that these boys are friends, and that they have life to share together. I think it is such a special blessing that my best friend and I have sons so close in age...and even more that they love each other so much. The last few times they have left one another, one of them cries. Molly & I always tell them that we understand how they feel....we remember crying when I went to college, or came home for a weekend...or even today when I get to see her and then have to leave her again. It's a bummer to say goodbye but I am thankful that she is so close and we get to meet up again soon!

Cooper and Sutton are good buddies too, but their little personalities are different and they play more independently. I think Sutton more wants to compete with Cooper...it's funny because he talks about Cooper all of the time. The funniest part is that Cooper is so coordinated and athletic so Sutton will try to make comments about how Cooper can't do this, or that. But in all honesty, Cooper can swim laps around Sutton, ride his bike in circles around him, etc so it's funny that my little man is talking smack!

I love you boys....what a blessing you all are! And with Greyson and Luke right behind you....gosh I am scared what you four might do to those young ones!