Camping

Family road trip to Montana!
Ivans favorites
Osprey, Turkey Vulture, all birds of prey
Bison
"Bisey and Cougie" the stuffed animal friends
Riding bikes at campsites and finding jumps
Fishing (even though we still haven't caught anything)
Swimming pools
Huckleberries and blackberries
Pokemon Go on the iPhone
Custard filled donuts
Burnt roasted marshmallows
Catching and eating crawdads
Montana State Fair rides
Silly Mr Pepper hiking songs
Setting branches on fire in the fire pit
EATING bison, pheasant, elk, buffalo

He is so perceptive and so loving and so sensitive and so smart.
We are reading Harry Potter, and my compulsion to finish books late at night seems to be heritable.
He gets so, so mad and grumpy at me when we finish a cliffhanger chapter.
And I am such a pushover...just one more page...a couple more pages...
Then Dan is the voice of reason.  He will, indeed, be a pain to get out of bed in the morning.

And then we repeat it all the next night.
Road trips have become mom-reads-aloud-until-she's-carsick-or-hoarse trips, plus minecraft on the "kids play phone" until it runs out of batteries.  Five minute warning.  One minute warning.  Wrap it up and give it to your brother.  Now, or I take it.

He wants to play piano, and lacrosse, and learn fencing, and snowboarding, and sailing, and build robots.
There's not enough time in a lifetime to do the things all the things he wants to do, all the things I want to watch him learn.

We're going to build a treehouse.  Somehow, sometime.  Might have to build the tree first.

"Here's a paradox:  if you went back in time to kill yourself, would you get there in time?"