Never a dull moment with James Woodruff!

You can really learn a lot from a 4 yr old! :) Yesterday I was having a heck of a day and so I decided to drop it all and take Baby V on a walk, I thought it might do us both some good. As I was leaving, Sterling and James pulled up (Caryn was having a "heck" of a day as well so they evacuated). Well I have to be honest, I was thinking having James join me on my stress relieving walk might actually add stress, but it turned out to be a very enjoyable walk! He talks and talks and I learned that four year olds absorb everything! He told me about how Honey had an "ouchy" on her back but that she wasn't going to have to have an operation and all sorts of other little tid-bits he's picked up by listening to conversations. I was SO impressed when we past by an American Flag and he stopped and saluted - what a good boy he is! Also, he really knows his way around. At the beginning of the walk he said, let's walk by my house - and I was like, ok - let's go, not thinking that he'd REALLY want to walk that far! When we got to the end of our street I asked him to take a left (I wanted to keep him out of the higher traffic direction) but he said, "My house it this way!" and proceeded to the right! We walked to the top of Glendower and I thought, surely he is tired now....whatever! He wanted to keep going, but I convinced him we'd better turn around and head back to Uncle Jimmy's house. No problem, says James and he takes off jogging back down the hill toward home. He behaved though and never got too far ahead of us, at least he kept me at a fast pace!! I certainly needed the workout. He did get far enough a head one time that he had his pants down in the middle of the sidewalk so that he could "relieve" himself. Oh well, four year olds aren't particularly modest and I told him that I was proud of him for doing that rather than letting it go in his pants! Hey - we'll take it, right?!? Finally, as we were approaching our house James had had enough of the walk (jog for him) and asked if he could get on the stroller with Virginia. ha - I told him he wouldn't fit, but that if he looked just around the bend he could see our house. It worked and we were able to make it back home without me having to push a stroller AND hold James on my back! Whew! Thank goodness - Auntie E was pooped herself.
Anyway, it was a very nice walk and when I returned home I was in much better mental shape and could go back to tackling closing out Q1. :) Thanks for the entertainment James!