If only I could be...forever three.

Without a doubt, I have the sweetest, most wonderful 3 year old to ever exist. Seriously...just tonight we had this conversation.

We were discussing him getting to be a big boy. Of course I should mention I was singing the Barney song, "Growing...we do it every day. We're growing when we're sleeping, and even when we play. Each day we grow a little bigger, a little taller, not smaller..." you get the picture.

Me: Boog, you are getting to be a big boy.

Boog: I don't want to be a big boy. I don't want to grow taller and get big.

Me: Why not?

Boog: I want to be little, I don't want to get bigger. How can I stay little?

Me: I can put a brick on your head. Do you want me to do that?

Boog: What's a brick?

Me: It's like a rock, we could put it on your head to keep you from getting taller. Do you want me to do that?

Boog: No.

Me: You want me to put you in diapers and back in a baby bed?

Boog: No, not a baby. Little like I am.

Daddy: You want to stay 3?

Boog: Yes, I wanna stay tree.

Me: You have a birthday coming, you are going to be 4 years old! Do you want to have a birthday?

Boog: No.

Me: You don't want to have a birthday party?

Boog: No. (with tears in his eyes, about to cry.) I do not want to have a party. I wanna stay tree.

Me: What about Tutti-Frutti? You want him to stay little too or do you want him to get big?

Boog: I want him to stay little too. I want me and Tutti-Frutti to stay little.

Daddy: Why, so you can sleep with Mommy and Daddy forever?

Boog: Yes...how can we keep me and Tutti-Frutti little? How can I stay tree?

Now, if that is not the sweetest, most innocent thing you have ever heard...I had real tears people! Who would have thought Barney the purple dinosaur would have had us all in tears tonight?!? Don't you wish everyone loved you as much as your precious 3 (tree) year old baby boys? The world would be a much better place.