Outside Baby

Jude has become a little man who wants to go outside all the time.

First, it was walks down to the letterbox on Saturday and Sunday mornings to get the papers. We now have that down pat, and about halfway down the driveway, he starts pointing at the papers (if he can see them!)

Now, he wants to go outside everytime I go out for a ciggie. That's ok, but i'm normally only going out for about 5-10 minutes at a time (depending on how cold it is, or if there is something funny on the radio out in the garage). But he wants to stay outside for longer than that.

And he wants to eat dirt. A lot of it. We had to give him another shower today, he did such a good job of getting dirty. He's even taken to going out there without shoes on - we did have a little ritual of putting on his slippers, which he wears around the house, and for going to nanny's - but now it's straight out the door ASAP, no shoes.

If you try to bring him in before he's ready, trouble! Pictures will follow, I spent a couple of hours outside with him on Saturday, and took a bunch of photos - it was a really nice day, we had a bunch of rain, and then it broke, and we had beautiful sun in the arvo.

Jack is crying now, so I'd better feed him.