Sweet Sweet Six

Dirty face, check, contemplating life in a potato, check, sweet sweet disposition and super funny comments about everything, check.  Yup, it's our six year old Jonas in his full glory.  The time has gone both quickly and slowly.  So much has happened, yet it doesn't seem like all that long ago that we brought him home from the hospital and looked each other and asked "what now?"  Jonas loves all things outdoors, though not actually the going outdoors.  As in, "mom, please don't make me play outside, let me lounge on my couch."  But when he gets there he is fully engaged in leaves, rocks, bark, and bugs of all kinds.  I'm reminded regularly of Blake, "to see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower..."  Jonas loves to draw and generate a prolific number of pieces of paper and various "treasures" to squirrel away in his locked cabinet.  Also living in the cabinet are his lego creations which he is very good at assembling.  Soon we are going to have to sort through everything to make more room, but until that time it's nightly "dad, take these things, and put them in my locked cabinet, not when you feel like it, but tonight, okay? pinky promise?"  Whether it's telling jokes on the plane to rows full of strangers or his use of the word "allegedly" Jonas keeps us all entertained.  Happy Birthday sweet boy.