Made Me Smile

 Ben is my helper...I count on him a lot. Mostly when it consists of bending over these days...or running up the stairs, or stopping Jake from maiming himself...I sometimes forget he is only 4.
But then when I check on him at night, "I'll Love you forever" style...he looks so little in his big bed. There is usually evidence of what he has been up to before he went to sleep and often a drawing or love note for "Moomy" left on his dresser. On this particular night, he has not only cleaned up his room, turned off his own light and pulled his blankets over him just so. He also picked out his clothes and laid them carefully on the bed...complete with a bow tie.
That little bow tie...it made me smile and smile bigger and harder until it came out in tears...because he is still my little boy even though he is big in so many ways...