Rainy Day

Two sweet stories from today... First, it is "Teddy Bear Week" at school, which consists of the children in Riley's class brining in their own teddy bear and hanging out with it all week while learning spatial concepts (over, under, next to, etc.). The week will be capped off with a picnic with their teddy bears on Friday. True to form, Riley took this assignment very seriously and reminded me at least 10 times this morning that he needed to remember to bring his teddy bear to school. But as we were leaving the house, and I asked him to put his rain coat on because it was raining really hard, he panicked. What on earth was Mr. Bear going to do in all that rain?!? Certainly he couldn't get wet. Luckily, he had just received a new shipment of hand-me-downs from his cousins Mac and Grif, and in the batch was a raincoat and rain boots identical to the ones Riley already had. So after bundling up Riley in his rain gear, he and I bundled Mr. Bear up in Mr. Bear's matching rain gear. It really could not have been cuter. The moment he walked into his classroom holding onto his identical twin, Mr. Bear, Riley's teachers immediately began gushing all over him. One of them even got up to take his picture so that she could send it to her sister ("My sister will love to see why I talk about Riley all the time"). It made my heart smile. Quite frankly, this was nothing compared to what transpired this evening. I may have mentioned before that Wrigley has developed storm anxiety in recent years. Not sure what has caused this, but she is terrified of storms. Tonight was no exception and it was a pretty major storm. Unfortunately, Riley seems to have caught on and tonight was absolutely terrified of the storm as well. Casey, being the good daddy that he is, told Riley he'd come sleep on his floor with him. So as I climbed into a large king-sized bed with only Winston, Casey and Wrigley settled down on the hard wood floor in Riley's room where they all drifted off to sleep to the sound of the Red Sox playing on the iPad. Never have I witnessed anything sweeter.