Bee Still

Today Joshua went outside to play. I assumed he had found his friends and was having a great time. When I looked out the window to check on him, I saw this:



He was standing completely still, staring down the road. I thought, "What a silly boy!" and continued on with the things I was working on inside.

About 10 minutes later, I looked for him again and saw this:



He hadn't moved at all! Weird. He gets in silly moods and so I figured this was how he wanted to entertain himself when his friends weren't available to play with.

A few minutes later I took out the trash and started to walk up to him (still in the same spot).

"What are you doing, silly guy?" I asked as I walked over to him.

Immediately he started crying, but he didn't move. I quickly realized that I had totally read the whole situation wrong. I hurried over and started to give him a hug when I realized that he was saying something about a bee through his tears. It turns out that a bee had flown past him. Joshua held still so he wouldn't get stung. But he is pretty paranoid about the bees, and so he didn't move at all after the bee left because he was still worried it would come back and get him if he did!

I scooped him up and reassured him. We went inside and he went to play in his room. I was not surprised to find a rare occurrence when I went up there a few minutes later: he was taking a nap!

Poor guy. He's already afraid to go play outside because of the bees. We really don't have that many around, but he is so scared of them. I'm sure this incident today just made his fears worse. It's going to be a long summer!