Lying on the Couch Is Safer

Teach me to ever go outdoors! This week I've been trying to institute a new routine of taking a stroller walk around the neighborhood after John wakes from his afternoon nap. Today I was feeling really lazy and the sky was looking oh-so slightly grey, as if it might rain (although it was about 75 degrees), so I decided that John and I would just play on the front lawn. I think I've only done that with him once before and that was when he couldn't even roll over. (I am such a bad mom!)

So, we toodle outdoors and are sitting on the front lawn playing with leaves when my neighbor Ginny steps outside her front door. Apparently only minutes before an armed man had robbed the bank one mile down the road and was now loose on foot, being pursued by police and their dogs! Phone calls were being placed to everyone in our neighborhood to move inside and lock their doors. So, that's just what John and I did! And all this while Chris was in an airplane at 40,000 feet, not due home for hours. Teach me to ever leave the safety of my home . . .

Of course, maybe it was God watching over me that made me too lazy to take my walk around the neighborhood where perhaps I wouldn't have received the warning from my neighbor at all.

Today I caught some (not very good) video clips of John walking . . .

. . . and clapping!

Meanwhile, John bonked his head on the bookshelf and I think is growing his first goose egg as we speak (although he is now happily playing). I'll keep you posted if anything else interesting happens!