2nd Grade Pictures

I may be biased, but I think V's becoming quite the handsome young man.

 

I can't believe how grown-up he is becoming. 

He is loving school and is doing well. He's an avid reader and excels at math. 

His favorite school activity is wall ball, I hear all about it everyday after school. 

He loves spicy food and has deemed green Tabasco sauce as his condiment of choice. 

He still loves to make paper airplanes and has come up with a few "secret designs" that no one else knows how to make. 

He likes to have collections. He currently has a wall ball collection, a rock collection, a shell collection, a rubber band collection, a paper airplane collection, a bouncy ball collection, an animal bracelet collection, a pencil collection, an eraser collection, etc. (It's fun trying to keep that room clean).

He has developed a special relationship with B that is fun to watch.

He's a great brother and son, and we couldn't picture our family without him.

My New Toy

I was given a new camera lens for my birthday. I was pretty excited about my new toy, but C was disappointed by its apparent lack of 'fun-ness.' 

"But what does it do?"

Well, I've had fun trying to answer that question. Here's some pics from an extemporaneous photo shoot (hence the messy hair and unmatched clothes):

And he's off...

B's first haircut

I had requests for pics of B's new haircut. So only a month after the fact, here they are...

BEFORE:

 

 DURING: (Yes, I distracted him with candy, it's better that way).

 

AFTER:

  
Here are some pictures after he was all cleaned up and ready for bed:

I always feel so sad when I cut my boys' hair for the first time. It always takes about a week before I feel like I didn't completely butcher their hair. B looks a lot different with shorter hair, and he's a bit more blonde now. R's happy that he now looks like a boy, and I'm getting used to the new 'do.
 

Why we only use washable ink

'Cause we're young, we're related, and we're boys...

Sometimes the resemblance between brothers is uncanny:

 

Both boys managed to injure the same toe on the same day that I was out of band-aids.

The best toy ever

I made this shelf thing out of a cube storage system that broke, and it ended up being one of the best toys ever. B spent hours placing and removing different toys on the shelves. Even the older boys got into it. When they got bored with it, I would just turn it on its back and it would become a whole new thing. Sadly, I had to put it away when the boys started jumping off of it. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.