There is almost nothing more priceless
than pictures of innocence!
Talan is at the perfect age!
He is soaking the world up like a sponge, forming his own opinions, and living the dream! Being the youngest of 5 must be pretty sweet!
There was this chicken that the kids found walking around. It was a very tame chicken! Talan begged to keep it! I told him that if we kept him, our dog would surely eat him! We decided to take it down the street to one of the neighbors who had chickens. I tried to explain to Talan why this was a much superior idea to keeping the chicken. He was sad! But he did it anyways. He walked the chicken down the street and gave it to the neighbors.
Talan is our only child who isn't on a team of his own. It's sad, but our plate is full, and he has to wait yet one more year to get his own uniform! We are a very sports minded family. Our lives are revolved around sports. We are either practicing a sport, playing a sport, coaching a sport, talking about sports, watching sports on TV, attending a sporting event, or training in one way shape or another so that we can become better at a sport. There is no wonder why Talan is devastated that he can't be on a team of his own!
But lucky for him we have lots and lots of sporting goods just lying around. We put together a baseball bag just for Talan. He has his own cleats, helmet, bat, ball, glove, and catching gear. As we went to game after game for the older boys, Talan packed his baseball bag and headed out to the game with us. He has never been very shy and he's pretty convinced that he can do anything that his older brothers can do if not better! He always seemed to find kids to play with. If there was an empty baseball field, he along with a herd of other little kids would be playing a little pick up game on it! If they couldn't find a field, they always seemed to find a small patch of grass somewhere to play. This Talan is a serious gamer!
