Fun with Landon

This post is at the request of my sister-in-law, who admittedly cares nothing about sports, and wants more "daddyhood" posts.  So here is a quick one. 

Being a father to a toddler is great because they are past that fragile, "oh my god I might just break this thing", stage and to the point of being able to rough house.  Landon, my 16 month old loves to wrestle around and for me to lift him high up in the air.  He also really enjoys a good game of chase which usually means he runs in circles around the island in our kitchen while I run after him, only to have our dog, Ripley, run and bark after me.  He has also found out all the joys of playing in the sprinkler in the backyard on a hot summer day.  Just yesterday he was in the sprinkler and it was great to watch the water moving closer and closer to spraying him in the face and once it did, the sheer shock of it all was a great thing to witness in his expressions...despite it having sprayed him in the same way just seconds earlier.  And lastly, kids at this age have no sense of self, which is great because they are not embarrassed when you do silly things with them like the picture above points out.  This is us playing with his Mr. Potato Head mustache.  It only took me about 20 pictures to get this one and in between takes he was laughing and trying to hold it up to his mouth since he obviously thought it was some sort of fun game.  We both had a blast, which seems to be a daily occurrence around our household.