The Blue Sky Stayed Up

I almost can't keep up with documenting all the cute, quirky, witty and poetic things that pass Cole's lips lately. I should carry a pad of sticky notes with me because things I think I will remember when he blurts them out in the car, at the playground or while running errands seem to disappear into the abyss that is my mind these days. Then I sit down to blog, journal or just jot a note (to remind myself of what I wanted to be reminded about) and I have to will my synapses to fire and spit back the memory that was only hour's old but is foggy already. Sheesh, I used to be as sharp as a tack...

Anyway, with long summer days upon us, there is light in the sky at 5am and light in the sky almost past 10pm. I love having days that seem to actually LAST instead of the cold dark winter days that seemed rushed and over way before my list of To-Do's is done. Cole still wakes in the morning on a farmer's schedule, up around dawn, ready to "let's go downstairs" and with fewer and fewer naps and more and more activity, he is exhausted and in bed way before the sun sinks into the horizon.

One morning a few weeks ago, Cole climbed into our bed at the 5am hour. He loves to look out of our skylights watching for clouds, airplanes, birds...as I began to shake the sleep from my eyes, I gazed at him gazing at the blue sky above. He turns to me, smiles and says "mommy, the blue sky stayed up". At first, my groggy self didn't understand and it must have showed on my face so he clarified for me "the blue sky didn't go night night, it stayed up". He had gone to bed the night before with us looking out his window at a helicopter that was flying over the house and he commented that the sky was really really blue. He obviously fell asleep with that thought and woke up to the same really really blue sky and pieced his thought together thinking that the sky never went to bed.

I love that I get to often see life through his eyes, it is wonderful, honest and real and makes the everyday things like a really really blue sky all the more special.