Becoming a Man

Cheese!

There comes a time when your used to be baby is suddenly old enough to actually be growing up.  I think it has to do with teeth.  It seems to here anyway.  Fisher lost his first tooth in early July.  He has since learned ... to chop wood with an ax, shoot a BB gun, lost two more teeth, has a MAJOR crush, will be turning 6 in a few short weeks, and starting home school Monday!  That's. A. Lot.  And lucky for you I have videos of the ax and BB gun. 

Interestingly, Fisher is being taught here by an old friend of mine from Philmont.  (I hadn't seen him in probably 12 years and I didn't even know he was living in Gunnison.  It was so surprising to run into him at Eric's house!) 




Learning the basics of BB shooting with a gun that was way too big.  They ended up cutting several inches off the back end and he did great.  I missed the TWO times he actually hit the wooden duck in the pond! 

 Becoming a man is exhausting!

It sure is hard work...growing up like he is. But the days when he'll fall asleep in the laundry remind me of the little one he used to be. I'm so proud of who he's becoming.


Love,
JKFP


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What I did on my summer vacation: The rest of the week.

How's that for a long break from day one?  As I'm sure you can all relate, we've been a little busy around here.  We got home from Gunnison on a Friday night and the very next day my parents flew in to town.  Don't worry I took pictures.  But I wanted to keep things in order so I'll show you the rest of our vacation first. 

The rest of the week pretty much consisted of...

Fishing

Walking to the fishing.

Napping.  Napping while fishing.

Fishing again and looking super adorable.

Fishing some more.

Think we're done?  Probably not.  Can you tell we like fishing?

We also had a couple moments of looking insanely adorable.

See?

There were nature walks.

Giant wishes.

Campfires.

 

Smores with snuggles.

 

And even an afternoon at the pool.

 

We had an interesting little side adventure on the way home.  We took the long way... and somewhere in the middle of nowhere Fisher needed to pee. (TMI? maybe - but it's what happened)  Anyway, we stopped and he took care of business.  Then he noticed bones in the distance.  He's such a good spotter!  So we decided to check them out.

Exploring.

 (he's doing his best Vanna White impression here - even though he has no idea who that is.)

We spent about an hour at this great spot in the middle of nowhere finding pretty rocks and small crystals.  All of us together.

 

It was such a fantastic place to stop!  We were so happy the boy had to go.  It ended up taking us exactly twice as long as usual to get home (6 hours) but we were so much richer for it.  Definitely one of those "stop and smell the roses" kind of days.  Or "stop and look for bones, rocks, and rainbows" kind of days.  Yes, there was a rainbow too.

Oh!  How could I forget.  Just two more things. 

1) We did all 6 of those hours with Bob (who is a wonderful traveller) and two baby chicks (who were decidedly less excited about the adventure than the rest of us).

And

2)  I think we found the place (location) we want to grow old. 

 

THE place. 

Just image a cabin anywere in this picture and you've pretty much got it.

Don't worry.  We'll let you come visit. 

And that's what we did on our summer vacation.

Hugs,

JKFP and Bob