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Taylor, our 4 year old, is something else. Take every piece of child rearing knowledge that you've ever heard, and toss it straight into the garbage. Don't get me wrong, he's a great kid, but this boy defines the word individual. I think I chose this picture because this was his reaction to me asking him to smile for the camera.

Does this look to you like he can hear me, or even knows we're together on the same planet? I didn't think so. The funny thing is that even though he doesn't pay much attention to what I think he ought to be doing he sticks so close to me around the house I call him Shadow.

While he's always been a bit on the shy side, he's not the sort of boy that suffers fools gladly--just ask his sister who wore an angry purple bruise to school on her first day of kindergarten. We told her to leave him alone, but it took a nasty bite on the cheek to convince her that Taylor wasn't fooling around. Not coincidentally that was the same week we decided maybe Taylor should sit out school just one more year...

Taylor is also a big boy, and is having quite a time mastering the concept of gravity. On this particular occasion it was gravity 1-Taylor nothing after he fought a fierce battle with the rugged ground at Grandma's house. However as you can see, he lived to play another day--this photo was taken while he was whooping it up with his sister and his cousin Stanley at McDonalds Playground.

 

This picture is a little older, when Tay was about a year and a half. My wife conviced me to take him with me when I traveled back to the mainland United States. While I wouldn't recommend a 24 hour airplane ride with a toddler to my worst enemy, it was worth it to introduce Taylor to my Dad.

 

This is Taylor a couple of years back... it's still one of my favorite pictures though..On this particular day in 1996, he was having a great day bouncing on the couch. He later fell off and hit his head on the floor, but ya gotta enjoy life for the moment I guess.

For those of you that missed it, here's Taylor Jacob Coffman as a baby! You can't really tell because of color correction, but for a while there he was as yellow as onion skin! Baby jaundice, they called it.

What they don't tell you is that baby jaundice also makes the baby smell like he'd been munching on curried rice or something, so instead of new baby smell, he kinda smelled like he'd just eaten at a Bangladeshi restaurant.

Luckily for him and us, the funky smell passed. So we decided to keep him.

Truth be told, Dinah was not nearly as offended by Taylor's aroma. Still, she later admitted, she was glad it was gone. A true Coffman family fact!

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