A boy and his bike

While I've been puttering about at home, setting the roomba free to roam, blogging, and loving the sound of silence, thinking all the while that the guys were off at a thrift store to get rid of a little bit of our garage clutter, this is what they actually went out to get:


Pretty tough bike for a boy in a bunny coat.

Busy boys

The boys were very busy today, all three of them. After the morning cartoons and cornflakes, they started their energetic day by helping Papa remove the rest of the railings from the deck. So nice to have the unobstructed view of the creek and yard back! (We had to put up the railings some years ago when we started the adoption process - our former China agency mandated it as a requirement for our homestudy completion. Even our insurance company didn't think we needed rails on such a low deck, but we couldn't argue at the time.)

Then, J and Roni did a little painting in his bathroom to get it - finally - all one color again after having the doorway closed off a long while ago. A little spiffing up soon to be joined by new flooring. D slept through this part, but when he got up to inspect it, he declared it, "Stinky!" One of his favorite insults.


Next there was some ferocious trike racing and a failed attempt at a two wheeled ride, and then they burnt some of the rails and toasted some marshmallows to end the day. J loves marshmallows, but D mostly dropped and walked on his. Not a sugar boy. He's more of a cracker king.


And what was I doing during all of this? Watching old movies from Netflix and doing a bit of this
:

and testing out my newest fiber craft, needle punching. A big of a lumpy sheep but it is a first attempt. Fun, though, and it will be a great way to use up all the yarn I keep producing.