February and March

A perfect capture of my children's personalities....they were both very proud of the "fort" they had built and Brandon wanted his picture taken with it, Micah, however, wanted nothing to do with the camera.

Brandon being the big brother and making breakfast for the two of them, including cutting the bread with a butter knife.

A rare and precious moment.

One Friday, after weeks of rain and cloudy skies, we had some brilliant sunshine and 52 degrees
so we headed out to the "blue boat park".  Even though it was windy enough to fly the kite by itself,
Brandon ran too--none of this standing still business.

Once again, Micah made it difficult to get a picture of him.

There was a free tee-ball clinic in Bellingham at the beginning of March, so to get a feel for whether Brandon would enjoy
doing a team sport here in town, we let him experience this first.  At first he refused to do anything until I pulled him aside
and reminded him how good he was at hitting the ball at home.  Then he decided to give it a try and loved every minute
with a ball.

He is a very strong hitter!

But when they gave him a bat to "pretend" hitting a ball and then arbitrarily run
around the bases--he would have none of it!

Just for fun at the end, they played "What Time is it Mr. Fox" and Brandon really got into that as well.

Tomorrow we begin a new season of life.  Brandon starts playing tee-ball on a team.  He's pretty excited but a little apprehensive as well.  It helped that the coach told us he should bring his own glove...that got him really excited.  Here's to trying new things.