Boys' Life

It's the glory days around here, folks, and we're just getting started at age 3 and age 1!! Here is why...

1. Books
2. Trucks and cars
3. Legos
4. Tools
5. Sticks and rocks and creeks and trails galore 

Summer is just arriving and we are looking forward to more hours outside: biking or walking, exploring, digging/weeding/looking for fossils, throwing rocks in the river, playing in the fountain downtown, learning to float in the water (Timo's goal), making friends with neighbors who have a trampoline (my goal), watching trucks driving down Main St (Mattias's), and finding out what childhood in the NC mountains will be like.

Here's a smattering of photos from around the house in the past couple months - still need to get more photos out and about -

Saturday morning reading - our new favorite, Total Tractor, from the library (you should hear Mattias's squeals of delight!).

 

Timo (with help) constructed one of his awesome "fire houses"

Mattias goes CRAZY with excitement when I get out the vacuum or broom. He loves to help - rather, he loves to do it himself with NO assistance from me. (I have to vacuum when Jim is home and the boys are outside if I want to actually get any work done.) Fortunately I bought this compact little vacuum at Rose's (yes, 80s throwback store, and I think most of the products may be from the 80s as well); it is small and lightweight enough that he can work it by himself.

We pulled out the couch (and moved that crate off the floor) to get the dustballs.

Timo checking the air pressure on his tractor tires

This is from several months ago, but this outfit remains one of Timo's favorites, his "soccer uniform" ("my soccer ball shirt, soccer ball shorts, soccer ball socks and soccer ball shoes", as he says). Thank you to the Felskes for the hand-me-down shirt!! Recently he has decided that when Daddy comes home from work is the best time to change into his uniform and go out to the side yard to play.

I am so happy to see how these two brothers are growing in their friendship and spend more time playing together now (at times without screaming or tears!). Their favorite game is to race all the cars across the shelf. Timo starts at one end and then hands off to Mattias in the middle, and then Mattias pushes them off the end. Then switch sides. And thankfully, so far it looks like Mattias is following hard in his brother's footsteps, loving all things truck and farm and fire and dirt.