We are really beginning to enjoy the boys at their stages.   Having the two of them growing closer together is fun to watch as well as seeing their different personality’s develop.  They spend most of their time playing with each other and the rest either getting on each other’s nerves or reading by themselves.

We live a half mile away from the elementary school and Kaden often says he can’t wait to go to school when we pass it.  Each night after dinner he and Laurel do a lesson together.  Kaden is a very academic person.   His favorite books and TV shows are documentaries of science and nature.   It is not enough for Kaden to look at a spider or fish, he needs to know the specific name of it and it often gets locked away in his brain to be used later to the amazement of all those present.  As parents, we want to subject him to a wide variety of interests and watch closely for something that seems to click.   If we can help him discover and experience an interest to whatever level he is willing to take it, it will be worth the work on our part. 

August is quite opposite from Kaden in most ways.   This is both fun and exhausting to us.   To give you an example; the other day Christian was washing our basset hound, Ernie, and August was watching curiously.   When Kaden was August's age, Kaden's curiosity would've been exhibited by cautiously putting one finger on the dog, retracting it with a few suds on it, and being mortified that now his finger was dirty and promptly ask us to wipe it clean. August's curiosity, on the other hand, always gets the best of him. When washing the dog, he reached out, stuck his entire hand in the soapiest hairiest part of the dog and in the same quick motion brought his hand back smearing suds/hair all over his face.   This in a nut shell explains August 24/7.   With Kaden we never needed child locks, he either wasn’t interested or when told, knew he was not to get into certain things.   August is known for ripping child locks apart; his curiosity simply overpowers all other rationale.   Even as we tell him not to touch something you can see the internal conflict as his hands/fingers refuse to take any orders from the brain.

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