We Almost Made The Evening News

Yep, that's right. My son was almost the child you see on the news who somehow managed to get his head stuck in an odd place that only a kid would try fitting into. We went to the zoo today because it's such a beautiful day here (it FINALLY feels like Fall!). We were having a great time visiting all the animals and feeding the birds (he's very brave about holding the seed stick still so a bird will land on it and essentially eat from his hand). The trouble came when we were looking at the tigers. He wanted to get a closer look and I'm not sure how he did it but he got his head stuck in the fence. He was crying and I almost was, but at the last second, I managed to get his head free. Whew! That was a close one. Thomas is supposed to be on TV in January on the Food Network show Unwrapped. That's plenty of exposure for us.

He also got me on a technicality when we got home. We were late getting home and it was already nap time. As we were driving, I told him we were going to go right in and lay down when we got home. He kept thinking of things he wanted to do for "three more minutes" first, which is his way of delaying the inevitable. Well, when I was getting him out of the car seat, he asked, "Cool outside Mommy?" I said that it was. He said "Oh boy, I play in car!" He loves to play in the front seat of the car fastening the seat belt, turning on the headlights, plugging in the cell phone charger and doing everything else you do when you're driving the car. All summer, and right up until today, it had been too hot to stay in the car more than about 3 seconds with the ignition turned off so I'd been telling him, "It's too hot sweetie, but when it cools down you can play." Soooo, even though it was nap time, I felt he deserved his "three more minutes" playing in the car. And grandparents don't worry, he was playing in a locked garage and I was right there watching him. :-)