It's your friendly neighborhood Spiderman...

It seems like every boy wants to be a superhero at one point or another.  Our son Preston has taken this phase to a whole new level.  He's often seen around our neighborhood as "Spiderman," and all but lives in his suit.  There was a point that we had to take his costume off of him at night while he slept, just so we could throw it in the laundry to be washed and ready for his crime fighting adventures of the next day.  I'll never forget the time I was outside talking with our neighbor.  "Spiderman" and his brothers were playing in the house.  For whatever reason, our two older boys thought that Preston needed to have a goatee to "finish his look."  They used a black magic marker to color in a perfect mustache and beard around his little four year old face.  When he ran out to us with his red and blue speed and flashed a smile showing off his new look I all but fell over.  My neighbor managed to grab her camera and snap a picture of him as I threw him over my shoulder to run and wash his face.  It's one thing to smile at people when they stare at you with "Spiderman" by your side while you get groceries or walk through a store...now we had to try and explain how why, in the middle of August, we had a kid in costume sporting a full goatee!
     I know there will come a time when we'll miss our days of adventure.  There is something about this stage that will stay with us.   We know that no matter how tall he grows, or how old he will be...he will always be our little Superhero.