With the corona virus raging & Max’s first day of “video school” at home (he had yesterday off), he said to me: “This is the last glass of water I’ll have at age 11.”
I am reading The Hobbit to him, first time, with a very nice illustrated edition I bought for bim. He is reading one of the “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” books to me.
It’s a challenge to get Max out of doors. He wants to be inside, while Elliot is the complete opposite & will cry without end until we take him outside, regardless off the temperature.
I have told Max many times how age 11 was one of my favorites, perhaps my most favorite, even though it was the summer i was bullied and my best friend, Brad Cohen, moved away and i never saw him again. So many wonderful things happened that year as i was awakened to rock music, music not influenced by my parents, but by my brother and my friends.
Elliot loves fish and water. He sees a small, evaporating pool of water, points and says “Fi! Fi!” then insists on spending the next 20 or 30 minutes throwing rocks into it. Today we saw a larger pool in a drainage ditch and the underwater plant was a Fi! Fi!
The other day we went Chatsfield Reservoir with Max. It was empty of people, and they both loved it. Elliot threw sand into the water, while Max built a sand castle. We admired two geese who got so close we could have touched them. That was after we’d spent 60 minutes or more back at our old haunt, the pond at Trailmark, playing at the playground but mostly throwing things into the water… Elliott’s favorite thing to do.
Elliot is such an independent spirit. For example, today we’d been outside over two hours around the playground (and a man fressed in Scottish clothing played the bagpipes). I wanted to go home, so I started walking that direction, encouraging Elliot to join me. He only said “Bye!”, waved, and ran with the unsteady feet of a 23-month-old the other way. That was after we’d spent 20-30 minutes circling the dog park so that Elliot could find a way in after he realized i wouldn’t open the gate for him.
Also it was the first night we used the firepit in the backyard!
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