Baby Brothers

Once upon a time...there was a little brown-eyed male species who came to live with us for an undetermined time period. This small but energetic creature was a curious active being, testing all boundaries placed in his little world. These lines of structure were in place to protect him...from himself!!!

I had the special privilege of being his older playmate but I was smart enough not to follow him everywhere he chose to wander. Especially if it required climbing any higher than 3 feet off the ground! During this creature's second or third year, he embarked on an exploration to high places all on his own. At the time, we were liiving in a small one room with a partition and bathroom which shared a wall with a work shop on one side and on the other side, an apartment for my grandparents when they visited.

My mother and I were in the kitchen area one day when we heard footsteps above our head. My mother looked up at the ceiling and then hollered, "Brian, you get down here right now!!! He had decided to explore the workshop next door but had climbed up in the ceiling!!! Well, you know he wanted to obey his Mama immediately, therefore, he just came right through the ceiling, landing at my mother's feet!!!! It is amazing that he did not land on his head!

You guessed it! This was my baby brother, Brian, who is 2 1/2 years younger than I. So glad that I was smart enough not to follow him on this exploration!