Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.
- Dr. Seuss -
It's late on Thursday night and I'm writing this after a long day of fun and good times with my nephew. I'm feeling a little worn out, but happy, as we've had a couple of really great days together. I thought I'd combine a few of the things we've done over the last couple days into one post so that you folks don't get bored with post after post of nephew stuff.
My nephew is one of those kids who likes to get involved with what the adults are doing; he's keen to help and likes to stay active. One of the things he mentioned leading up to coming here was helping me with my gardening and I promised he could do so. Of course, part of him helping meant he would earn a reward and he chose to take his in three ways.
Above you can see his tomato reward picked right from my garden by his own little hands - He ate quite a few right off the vine but we managed to get many more.
Here in the image above you can see his stash of strawberries, his second reward, also from my garden. There were a lot more strawberries but we saved some to have with ice cream later - these in the image he ate almost as soon as I took this picture...the tomatoes didn't last long either although I managed to save some for our salad that night.
His third reward for helping me was free-rein with the garden hose. The plants certainly got a good soaking that night and I, somehow, managed to get soaked as well...lucky the weather is hot. He had fun chasing me with the house though, and so did I.
Later when I asked if he liked helping me in the garden he said, it's berry fun uncle. Cute huh? He doesn't say very and replaces the V with a B. He'll grow out of it eventually, but it's so cute and funny, so I hope not too soon.
The previous day I took him over to my other house, the one I don't live in, and he got to play with some of my Lego there.
I keep a few over there that I don't have room for here and he enjoyed playing with my car carrier truck, Mack Anthem container truck, my Landrover Defender, Camaro, drag car and the Extreme 4x4 Off-Roader which is a remote control Lego Technic car - That was his favourite. You can see him pictured below surrounded by them all.
After that, it was time for some music so we played the piano a little. He hasn't played before, but I taught him a couple things which he picked up really quickly. He plays the violin, has been learning for almost a year now, and...well, it's terrible to listen too, but it's given him a basic grounding in music and he picked up the piano pretty quickly. I endure the violin because he is so funny to watch when playing - He takes it very seriously.
The cool thing with my nephew is that he is very well-rounded, meaning that he will try his hand at anything; he's just as comfortable playing outside, camping, biking, kayaking, sailing, fishing and all, as he is reading, building Lego, painting or playing his violin and doing more academic things.
He's a really great kid and I like how his parents are exposing him to so many different things; it's how I was brought up and whilst not all of those things continued on, I got to try them and decided what I wanted to focus on.
Today was all about the Zoo and we spent almost the entire day there, whish is why I'm so worn out. I've not gone through the photos yet and most of them have his face in them so I'll have to work out what I can show here on the blockchain. I'll do that at some later date I guess and share a few from the day.
For now...well, it's time for bed I think...my nephew is already asleep, (he's so peaceful when asleep), and I should be myself.
Design and create your ideal life, don't live it by default; tomorrow isn't promised so be humble and kind - galenkp
Any images in this post are my own