Hugs for strangers

Carter and I went on a little walk to our associate park today. We go most days of the week, around 4:30 when Jordan is just about to get home. By then, we are usually both going stir crazy, and are ready for Daddy to be home...plus Carter LOVES to see Daddy pull up in his work van, he screams "dada, dada" and runs towards his van. Yes, I am teaching him not to run at cars, but for now, its still cute! :) Today I took my cameara with me, and was trying to get a few cute pics of him playing, but we got kinda sidetracked. :)

Anyways, as we were running around in the grass, there was a little girl playing a ways away from us. She started wandering our way, and she caught Carter's attention. It didn't take long before he was running towards her. Curious to see what he was going to do, I stayed a few steps behind him and watched. He runs right up to her, and puts his arms around her legs and hugs her. He looks up at her with the sweetest look and just held on. It was sweet, but he is so strange. He doesn't even do that to me! Or maybe I don't notice it because after he clings to my leg for a while, I pick him up, I don't know.

Anyways, here is the rundown of the conversation between me and the little girl.

Me: Hi!
Her: Smiles, waves, and says hi.
Me: This is Carter, what is your name?
Her: Miranda (as Carter is already attached to her legs)
Me: What are you doing?
Her: Throwing my sweatshirt in the air and catching it. (oh, to be 5 again)
Me: How old are you?
Her: 5
Me: Carter is being pretty friendly, is he bothering you?
Her: Ummm, kinda

So I pull Carter away and tell her we will go play on the other side of the park so she can play alone. This lasts about a minute before she starts hopping on one leg towards us with a big smile on her face. Carter begins running towards her again, and latches right back into another hug.

Me: He sure likes you, do you have any brothers or sisters?
Miranda: Yep, I have a little sister who is 8 months, and an older brother
Me: Thats cool, Carter is 14 months. Pretty soon your little sister will be chasing you around and giving you hugs like he is!
Miranda: Wait, I thought you could only go up to 12 months old?

Then Jordan pulled in the gate, Carter looked up and starting running and shrieking "DADA." We waved by to Miranda, and followed Jordan back to the house. :)

hahaha I don't know why, but our conversation just amused me. It probably isn't all that interesting to anyone else.....but I just love the simplicity of a 5 year old. I did manage to get one picture of Carter kinda releasing his hug, but its not that great.