this kid...

With Sadie and Wyatt both in school all day this year, it afforded me lots of time to spend with Blake. Here is a look into my days with this little guy who always keeps me on my toes and cracks me up!!

Can you spot Blake in Target? I took this only after frantically looking around the aisles and calling his name--he never responded to his name and thankfully, I spotted him!

sleeping spot #1--on a chair, under a blanket

A trip to Play-It-Again to get skates sharpened for all the boys is never just a quick trip......asking me to strap on the goalie pads....

Have I mentioned how much he likes 'gear'?

On one of the first nice days in the spring when it was finally warm enough to have the windows down, I looked in my rearview and saw this. I took a quick pic, knowing that someday I would miss seeing that little hand out the window.

A day at the Children's Museum--when I didn't have any kids in school, going to the Children's Museum was a weekly outing. But poor Blake hadn't been there in probably 6 months or more, so I promised him we'd go. Of course the first thing he had to do was paint his face like a tiger!

We took this picture one night when we went out to dinner with the Kuchs at my favorite restaurant, the Blue Door Pub. All of us adults were busy talking and hadn't been paying attention, when Wyatt said, "Mom! Look at Blake!" 

You can imagine all the comments from the tables around us....

Sleeping spot #2---this one was especially hilarious. We were all getting ready to head out the door one night and I had asked everyone to put their coats on and head to the car. We couldn't find Blake when it was time to go and we all were calling out his name, checking his bedroom, the basement, the closets.....and then we headed towards the back door and found this. Out cold.

I had a few returns to do at MOA and had some ride tickets that were going to be expiring soon. Blake wanted to do the giant swings and he didn't care one bit that he was the ONLY kid on them.

Then I let him pick a lunch place and this is what he picked. This boy sure knows the way to my heart.