In consecutive months Mason has proven that vaccines are sometimes fruitless.  Right before Christmas he came down with the flu despite being vaccinated and now he has come down with what we believe is chicken pox…also despite being vaccinated.  So now he gets a long vacation from school and finds all sorts of interesting things to do around the house.  Today he got out one of my old boxes of baseball cards and spent a couple of hours sorting them by team.  When I walked in and saw him sitting there I couldn’t help but smile and think back to the many hours I spent doing the same exact thing.  He’s already talking about how he will hand my cards down to his kids who will hand them down to their kids and so on.  I love it when my childhood obsessions are brought back to life by my boys.