Catching Up

 Just trying to catch up on some events and stuff. 

So I've been overly proud of Merrick here lately.  At only 40 months old (just shy of 3.5yrs) he has learned to ride his bike without training wheels.  He can start on his own, break and stop.  Not bad for a kid who should be far behind his peers given his setbacks.

 Here's one of Merrick fielding a ground ball and throwing it back.  I'm using a real aluminum bat and a real baseball here, none of that soft stuff for this kid.  He really loves baseball. I'm not sure what happened to the sound on this but it was too hard to hold the camera and hit him a grounder to bother with doing it over.

We took them to Boondocks to play some mini golf.  By the third hole Merrick had lost his ball in the pasture next to the course.  He did hit it pretty far though.  Gavin was sinking puts all night.  They loved it.  We also played some video games for awhile and the boys really loved that.

I finally got to take the Gavman out shooting.  He had so much fun.  He actually hit a balloon on his second shot.  I could not ask for a better son.  He really loved the paintball marker too.  I let him shoot that one by himself and he got a kick out of that. 

Just when I'm puffed up and proud of my boys, I walk into the boys room and see this going on.  Appalling, just appalling. They did not get this behavior from me. 

Hopefully between the guns and their dancing the boys will be able to scare off any would be suitors of Sophia.  "My precious..."

My family means the world to me, in fact, they are my world.  Without them I have nothing, with them I have all that I need.