Anthony was sitting on my lap this evening, looking tired and rubbing his eyes, when I suggested that it would be a good time to go to bed because he looked tired. His response...

That's an unexpected phrase for a four year old. He apparently learned "trust me" earlier in the evening when I used it while giving him some not-yucky-tasting medicine for a mild cough he's had. Like most kids, I guess, he has an innate fear of anything remotely medicinal. This fear is cultivated because the infant and kid medicines common in The States have sickenly sweet flavors [...]
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Anthony chased fireflies for the first time the other day. It was wonder and glee incarnate.

He'd been sitting on the veranda with Grandma feeding the birds when they saw the first one at late dusk. They went out onto the lawn, and each time Anthony noticed a firefly, he pointed and ran toward it with unconstrained excitement. Anthony would find that the firefly would go dark before he got there, only to see another one somewhere else, so in this manner he zigzagged, pointing and bursting with excitement, across the lawn.

I watched with considerable enchantment, eventually breaking myself [...]

Anthony was wearing a sweater that I used to wear at about his age, but he didn't seem to feel the nostalgia as much as enjoy playing with his toy.

In the process of turning Grandma and Grandpa's house into a disaster zone, Anthony finds the Sit 'n Spin™ that his Aunt Marci bought for her little Josh when they visit.

For whatever reason, amid his joy of discovering this fun toy, he stopped to instruct me to take pictures that we could send to Mommy (who remains in Kyoto for the summer).

At $4.87 for the toy golf set, I couldn't pass it up, so Anthony tried a bit of golf today.

Eventually, golf transitioned into baseball....