TBear turned 12 years old today, a pre-teen for only one more year. It's hard to believe time has flown by so fast. In fact, I spent some time today going back through all my pictures and reminiscing about the last 12 years. I thought I might share some of them.
His twelfth year was a good year for a new set of wheels. If his older sister's frugality is any indication, hopefully this set will take him through college. : )
Going backwards in time, this was TBear's 11th summer. He was big into RC planes. He amused himself with them while we were baling hay until it was time to pick it all up. He still enjoys the planes.
The year he was 10, the two of us went to the New England Suzuki Institute strings camp in Standish, ME. We stayed the week in a campground on a site that was next to a catch and release pond. How cool was that?! He got a lot of fishing in around the music.
For his 9th birthday, TBear's grandmother gave him a trebuchet to assemble and test. Those babies can toss some bean bags!
The year TBear turned 8 yrs old, we bought our farm in Maine, and discovered we had bats roosting under the metal roof of our house and in the attic. We have since enticed them to a bat house on the side of the barn, and sealed up the entrance under the roof. We decided to do a unit study to learn more about them that year. They are very cool creatures, and we love to see them arrive each spring since they like the black flies more than we do.
And of course, 7 was the age of the two missing front teeth. : )
When TBear was 6 years old, I was doing Konos' Ancient History with his big sister, Riss. TBear had fun creating Spartan garb. (He's still making those wooden swords. : )
This lamb was given to TBear when he was 5 years old. The lamb weighed only two pounds at birth, and its mother rejected it, so the young lady who owned it and was in high school, gave it to TBear to bottle feed and save. Dimi is alive and well... still!
He went through a very cute cowboy phase when he was 4 years old.
This picture is proof that this little boy was putting together K'nex models at the age of three; a gift he shares with his sister Nutmeg. It sure surprised me. He could follow the picture directions to assemble them. We still have all those K'nex too. I love toys that last.
TBear had an ice cream cake when he turned two years old. It's still hard for me to believe this was taken ten years ago.
I didn't have any digital pics of TBear when he was one; at least, none that I could quickly find. I guess two was the year we went digital. So here ends the tour back in time.
My baby is now twelve years old...imagine that.
