Growing up...

Well, I have had a couple of real "wow, he's growing up" moments in the last couple of days.

The real one was yesterday. We drove up to the house, and the neighbor boy was playing basketball in the front yard with a friend. Ty really wanted to go out and play with him, and I couldn't persuade him to play in our backyard by himself. The neighbor is probably 8 years old or so, and I didn't think he'd want to play with Ty. I felt protective and didn't want Ty to be rejected, but he took off toward the boys and announced "Hi. My name is Ty. Do you want to play basketball?" It took my breath away.

Turns out the neighbor boy is amazingly sweet and gracious, and introduced Ty to his friend and they all 3 played basketball, soccer, and hide and seek for almost an hour. I had to (almost literally) drag Ty in to go to bed.

Time flies when you're having fun.