Sometimes...

Sometimes..., originally uploaded by iamaprice(Amanda).

the unconventional is just more appealing.

My son. All boy. All the time. He's been having a blast with his cousins. They play war quite a bit. He wears his battle wounds proudly - after the fact, of course.
Yesterday I gave him an old John Deere calendar that one of the boys was getting rid of. Josh thought he might like to look at the paintings in it. There were a couple of scenes depicting farm kids riding on or playing around mini tractors. Joshy naturally gravitated towards these and immediately hatched a plan to get one of his own.

Joshy: "Hey Dad! Look at these cool tractors. Don't you want to make me one? It'll be so easy. Ok. First, all you have to do is get some supplies like an old mailbox and some tires, and then you can just take two days to make it for me!"

Ah, the optimism of youth.