My "date" with a younger boy at the playground ...

Yesterday after church, Riley and I took a walk to his school to try out the playground equipment. There isn't a ton to do so after a few times down the slide and a race across the field, mommy took a break. I took a seat at the top of the slide, looking backwards towards the rest of the slides and fun things. I sat and watched Riley run like he had all the energy in the world ... and then he did something I'll never forget. He came over, made room for himself on my lap and said, "Mom, let's just sit here and talk." *Sigh*

So we sat at the top of a slide, on the playground of his new school and chatted about how excited he was about being a "big boy" ... about how he was going to be learning new things ... and we even sang a couple songs. As I sat there playing with his hair, I realized that this is probably one of the last times that he'll ever want to do this with me. Soon he'll be too embarassed to sit on his mommy's lap where someone, especially one of his new friends, may see him. Soon he'll be telling me to leave his hair alone.

What happened to this little boy?