Grateful for this guy

He will wake up in the morning and pack a lunch for both himself and Samuel.

And help his brother study for tests.

Lamby

Woke up this morning with Joshua next to me with Lamby, his bedtime friend for 8 yrs.
Then when Samuel woke up, he asked Joshua to come give him a hug.
Times of sweetness still with the boys

Homework king

Was sort of amazed at how hard Joshua can work when he sets his mind to it.
I mentioned to him that he needed to finish his homework, fold the laundry and clean his room if he wanted any screen time.
He then proceeded to independently finish is Chinese homework (none of which I understand), his English project, the laundry, and cleaned his bedroom.

Pretty amazing.  I am sometimes frustrated with his lack of social awareness (I know, not his fault), or his lacking physical/dietary versatility, but hope I can just chill and appreciate the awesome person he is.

Vasquez rocks

Have been wanting to take the boys out to the Vasquez rocks and finally made it out there this weekend.  Spectacular.  Beautiful morning with cool sunny weather in October.  The boys kept saying, "This is awesome!"  "We should take our friends here!"  "I didn't think we could make it up here!"--after summiting one of the tallest peaks.

Nice note from Joshua

Joshua made our bed this morning and left us a lovely note and candy to boot. Love this little boy and his kind heart.

Finding a needle in a haystack

The boys will still spend hours if not days looking through their ENTIRE lego collection bin by bin for a certain lego piece they need for a creation. Both Annette and I admire their perseverance.

Sleeping

Sometime before 6am in the mornings, the boys always manage to sneak into our bed.

Before bedtime last night, Joshua was full of facts and questions he wanted to share with us:
"Mom, do you know what dark matter is?"
"I want to be a scientist or an engineer!"