Brent in Boat at Moran State Park, Orcas Is.

Every day the kids were in the water....I didn't think it was warm enough, but Brent had his swimming trunks and swim shirt and he was a happy clam. Two families brought two men rubber rafts and the kids had fun rowing around the lake. Here Brent is just goofing around close to shore and using a super soaker to try to soak someone dumb enough to get close to him! Sometimes, the girls would abandon ship and just swim to shore to avoid the water attacks from the boys!

What do boys think?

Patti tells me that one of the things Brent loves to do as soon as recess is called during home schooling is to run outside and start walking round and round this tree at the beginning of their driveway. There used to be rocks there and Brent would walk around the rocks, but it made them move out into the driveway and make it hard to drive.

So most of the rocks are moved now to the side yard. But Brent still walks round and round this tree. Usually counter clockwise but sometimes clockwise. When I ask him what he's thinking he says "Nothin." But Patti says he's inventing stories in his head. And each day if you ask him, he'll give you the next chapter in his story.

4th of July

Brent in yard on 4th of July wearing his swim team t-shirt. I think he's a piranah. Whatever he is, he's sure cute.

Brent on Astoria waterfront

Brent and Alan

Brent and Alan by some weird green thingey at the Maritime Museum.

Brent and Aunt Bev in May

I always protect them.

Protection is a big thing with Brent.

Remember how he lines up his plastic dinosaurs in a row across the top of the landing so that when Alan gets up at 4am and starts down the stairs he almost trips on them. But Brent puts them there after everyone is upstairs and in bed. He is protecting his family.

And when he bought this plastic shot gun (I am opposed to guns) he really wanted me to take a photo of him and his parents while he was holding the gun. He told Patti "You can do a scrapbook page and say "I always protect them."

Protection is a big thing with Brent.