While we were out enjoying the amazingly beautiful weather this morning, Carson discovered his own shadow. And freaked out. We were on a “bug hunt” along a nature trail at the nearby park (the things you do with boys…) when he stopped dead in his tracks and pointed at his shadow. Lacking the appropriate vocabulary to verbalize his strong feelings about this new discovery, Carson resorted to yelling “uhuhuhuh nononono” and running away. Poor kid, not realizing how shadows work, threw even more of a fit when his big old shadow kept following him. I tried not to laugh and then shifted my focus to plotting how to get this 28+ pounder to walk back to the car by himself rather than being forced to carry him that far in my “delicate condition.”