Hopefully this post will make up for most of the other posts being mostly about Avella. :)
I think if we had something like this out back my boys would be in heaven. Being able to build with huge objects... what boy wouldn't love it?
Ethan's first day of school.
He was excited, he just likes to be very early to things and he didn't want my taking pictures to interfere with that.
Trevan could barely stand starting school a week later than Ethan. On Ethan's first day of school he made me take a picture of him with his backpack on too. He was so excited when it was finally his turn.
Trevan helped me make freezer meals. He wants to be a chef when he grows up, so I try to include him when I cook. He loves it.
Ethan is having a Man vs. Wild moment here. He has asked me for months if he can try and make a fire in the backyard. I always tell him yes, but he has to start it using only sticks. (What? That's the way Bear Grylls does it.)
So all summer he has tried. Finally he asked Ryan if he could do it using the Bear Grylls knife we got him for Father's Day. We gave in and let him make a (very small) fire. He is quite the expert teepee maker (you know how you put the wood in a teepee to let the air feed the fire? I am not a Boy Scout and had never learned to make a fire that way.).
Ethan also got a pocket knife this summer at Woodbadge. He is very good with the safety rules, and he has carved quite a few sticks into points. He cannot wait to go into Scouts.
Ethan loves to ride his scooter to school. He had a whole list of reasons of why he needed a scooter to ride to school instead of his bike. One being that it would help him balance better. He was very convincing. :)
Ethan and Trevan got to play (red light green light) one last time with their cousins before they moved far away. Seriously Staci, Oklahoma? Whatever. ;)
