Mason

Oh my sweet boy! I just want to put him in a bubble. I don't want to let him get his feelings hurt or figure out that some people in this world really aren't all that nice.

*at the pool today he kept trying to talk to the lifeguard, even though she was busy giving a swim lesson. He just wanted to tell her that he was learning how to swim too. He also kept trying to talk to all of the kids there. They just looked at him like he was nuts. Then when he went down the slide the wrong way another lifeguard tried to tell him not to do that but Mason didn't hear him because he was playing so hard. The lifeguard just rolled his eyes and acted like Mason was crazy. So I asked him nicely to go down the slide correctly.

*last night we went out to dinner. While Addi was in the potty, Mason and I stood there and waited for her. A couple of girls walked in and Mason couldn't wait to tell them that he had a loose tooth. I tried to tell him not to talk to strangers but he said that they were his friends.

*yesterday at the park there were some big boys, around 8 years old playing with a soccer ball going down the slide. Mason kept retrieving the ball for them when it would bounce away. He tried as hard as he could to throw it nicely back to them. He even apologized when he didn't throw it right to them. When they left to go play somewhere else, Mason didn't understand why they didn't ask him to go with them. He kept saying that his friends left him.

Oh, the pain in my heart. He is the sweetest, friendliest kid. All of those kids should be so lucky to have a friend like him. Man, I hate this. The thought of my baby suffering is more then I can bare. Can't I just lock him in the house for the rest of his childhood? I don't want him to suffer because of his naivity