Tristan's Tantalizing Thoughts

I had mowed the front lawn on Wednesday of last week but the grass was long enough that it was not all going into the bag; I left clumps. Saturday comes around and it is SUNNY. I go outside with Brando to rake the clumps. As before, Brandon INSISTS on helping Daddy. I grab water for me, water and juice box for him, big rake for me, smaller rake for him, and we hit it. We get done quickly, with Brandon looking at me and saying "I like raking, Daddy. It's fun for me. Can I help you with something else?"

I should have recorded that for use when he is older.

We followed that up with feeding and mulching the trees and mulching one side of the driveway.

From there on it was chalk drawings on the driveway, playing catch (with me discovering I need to stand farther away from Brandon than I use to...he finally 'gets' the throwing form I taught him), frisbee and then finally playing with our neighbors girl across the street. They had a blast on her trampoline and then playing games over at our place. We finished strong with Daddy Brandon home snuggle movie night (TM).

Sunday was rain. No problem there...we watched Survivorman (he is hooked) and then he played in the sunken tub wearing the mask and snorkel I bought him (he saw someone on TV doing SCUBA and I explained SCUBA was out right now but 'try this', heh). We read three books, with him really working hard on two of them to sound the words out. A little Star Wars Legos video game action and then off to bed.

Great weekend!

I am working on setting up a ride along with my neighbor (Baltimore county cop) and also going shooting sometime.