Becca left the boys with me while she and the girls ran an errand after I got home from work. Jack wanted desperately to go wandering down the street in search of his mom. I allowed him to go down to the end of our street but made him turn around and come home because I could not leave Rick alone at home. So he was heartbroken and distraught from being made to turn around. Rick came to the rescue with a big sunny smile and a hand full of helicopter seeds from the neighbors' maple trees. We walked up and down the street in front of our house picking up handfuls of helicopter seeds and tossing them in the air and watching them spin slowly back to Earth.
Becca made it home and we all went for a family walk, allowing Jack to lead the way this time to go wherever he wanted, unhindered by interruptions from us. We wandered for a good long while, following his two-year-old whims at each intersection through the neighbor hood streets till we were all finally worn out and trudged back up the hill toward home.
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