A five-year-old surge force

There’s no match for a troop full of testosterone.
Though girls can be just as commando as boys in many respects, the intense physicality of my boy is on overdrive when he’s growing through a growth spurt. All week I’ve been seeing double, because he’s covering a lot of ground, fast and furiously.
It was a week where being indoors out of the deep cold began to take its toll on the boy--and his handlers. The furniture has become an indoor survival training course, and we, the ladies of the house, are ready for a warming trend so we can move those big muscle groups back outside.
After being worked over all day, all it takes is one little “I love you, Mom,” to bury my battle wounds and call a truce so we can both sleep soundly in our fox holes, getting ready for another day at the front.
C’est la guerre.