Updated
July 23, 2003
We celebrated
Brothers' Day in style this weekend, and everyone had a wonderful
time! I'm not surprised you haven't heard of Brothers' Day -- I
made it up this year, and we'll continue to celebrate it as long
as the boys want to. I figured we have all the celebrations for
Fathers, Mothers, Grandparents, Bosses, Secre - er, Administrative
Assistants days, but nothing to celebrate how great it is to have
a built-in best friend: having a brother!
The boys are
so close in age, they really are their own best friends. I think
that they have a special opportunity -- and a special bond -- and
why not celebrate all that is good in that?!?
So we started
Brothers' Day -- this year we took the boys to the circus and sat
right down front. We got there extra early too, so we could go
down to the performance floor and see all the circus things, hang
with the clowns and see the animals up close. They gave the boys
red ball clown noses, and we all got to see up close (really close)
an acrobat act. In fact, I got to be part of the act -- balancing
a guy upside down doing a hand-stand! Be sure to check out the
photos...
Jackson and Porter
really are fun boys to be parents of -- and at this age, they're
an acceptable mixture of frustrating, facinating and fun. Porter
is really getting obstinante about things and takes great pride
in putting me in my place -- "Don't you take my juice, Daddy."
Jackson loves to read books that use his imagination, instead of
all pictures -- right now, we're reading "Through the Looking Glass."
And both boys really like going on Nature Walks around the neighborhood,
looking for neat leaves, dead things (birds, lizards, bugs), and
various things that fall out of trees -- including little hatched
egg shells. On Sunday's walk, we even brought home a HUGE palm
branch -- it's got to be 15 feet long -- and they carried it themselves!
Well, as far
as things go for now, all is well. We had some house maintenance
done around here -- fixing rotten wood, new light / fan in the
boys room, new light in our room. Stuff that needed to be done,
but that I really don't cherish spending real money on. I'm still
working on strategy issues for work, so travel is manageable --
few days
here
and there
-- and we're headed to the beach this weekend with Myra and Kenneth
joining us. For now, things are just fine --
