El Porche

Kids develop so fast.  A short week or so ago, Kinsley wouldn’t sit through a thorough reading of ‘A Gaggle of Geese and a Clutter of Cats’. Or other books of similar density.  The past couple days he can’t get enough of them.  Yesterday I read every word, and every page, he repeated one of the animal group terms. (E.g. “Tanroo troup” = kangaroo troup) Usually the one pictured, of course. Should I be worried that this page is his current favorite animal?

I can always hope it’s because “elk gang” is easy to say and because we saw elk last November

A whole gang of them!!

When I tried to take a picture of Kinsley reading the book with me this morning, he made a face at the camera.  And it was too dark.

But I am posting the memory because there was one particular page he had me read over and over and over and over.  Until I had to get up for making breakfast.  I like the page too:

“Now here’s a fine group. What’s the name? Please keep guessing!  A big group of kids? Why we call them a BLESSING!!”

Here’s a blessing we saw recently. Kinsley was so excited that everyone was painting.

Note: I just realized that over half of the people we added to the blog email weren’t actually getting the posts.(Read: anyone that I added – Cal knew how to add them correctly!) That said, if anyone got added mistakenly, go to horlings.net to unsubscribe

Kinsley went to a friend’s house the other day, and found other friends too.  I love the diversity of his tastes.  Animals (real or stuffed), music of any kind, tools of any kind!

Here he is with our cat Tip (a couple months ago)

And dogsitting Max

And keeping Seth, a friend’s dog, company. 

Working with Mommy to make a lion and a tiger

Improvising tools when needed – notice the second stick by his hand on the porch – there were several tools being improvised.  (This was before Christmas, and tools were still forgotten on the Christmas list, but an aunt with two boys of her own sent him a toolbox)

And helping out on our field trip to the Choctaw office Saturday