Just a Quick Note

Jace cried twice today. Actually cried. Real tears. Not a fake, whiny, I want my way cry (he did do that but I'm pretending like my child is perfect and doesn't act that way). Both stemmed from his balloon buddy. He blew up a balloon on Saturday night. He very seriously told Tyler and me that we were not allowed to pop said balloon. We had to hold it when he went to do stuff so he wouldnt' loose it. Sunday after church (the balloon had to make the trip to chruch with us but stayed in the car), we drew a face on the balloon and it became his balloon buddy. Since then, it has traveled to Nana and Pawpaw's, had to be tucked into a sleeping bag at night (only because I wouldn't allow Jace to actaully sleep with it), and was always tucked saftely onto a shelf when Jace was through playing with it.

The first time he cried was because he was chasing after his balloon buddy and slipped and fell. He hit the floor with a cracking sound. It sounded like something fell off the counter, not my son's head hit the floor! Socks and wood floors don't mix well! So we calmed Jace down, he'd put up his ice pack and was watching Mickey's Christmas on TV all by himself with Balloon Buddy.

Then we hear a loud pop and a wailing cry come up from Jace. According to Jace, (through real crocodile tears) Balloon Buddy popped when Jace was loving on him. Ooppss, we sqeezed too tight! I think it took him longer to calm down after that one than the floor! He finally calmed down when Nana told him she had balloons at her house and he could make another one tomorrow. He even meantioned it an hour later. He said he was sad because he popped his balloon.

What are we going to do with the little booger??