Park Photo Shoot: My Goobers

Of course I'm totally biased,
but these are some beautiful kids!

Count me as one proud mama
who marvels everyday that I have such
choice spirits in my home.

Are we not blessed?

There was never a child so lovely
but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Even when freshly washed and
relieved of all obvious confections,
children tend to be sticky.
Fran Lebowitz

There are only two things a child will share willingly -
communicable diseases and his mother's age.
Benjamin Spock

It is easier to build strong children
than to repair broken men.
Frederick Douglass

You are worried about seeing him
spend his early years in doing nothing.
What?
Is it nothing to be happy?
Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long?
Never in his life will he be so busy again.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762