Today Collin is 11! Yep another birthday in our household. (Guess what yet another is coming soon! Check back......... real soon.)
Collin is the child who keeps me on my toes and on my knees. He has a very black and white personality. Has a hard time grasping concepts that are in the gray zone. I'm learning to never assume he understands something until he has explained it back to me. Very sensitive... intense is a good descriptive word for my middle child. When he is up he is very up when he is down he is very down. A talker and a lover. He has said in the past that he wants to grow up and own a restaraunt and be the president of the US. He has also said he is not sure if he wants to own the restaurant or be the cook. LOL I told him to own it and cook both. "Can you do that?" was his reply.
Here he is working on a volcano lapbook project in preparation to our visit to Mt. St Helen's in June.

Collin is incredibly creative and talented. I'll have to post the second part of his story that he is working on. OOOooooo I just saw it lying on the desk here. (really I'm not kidding it just happened to be here.) If you missed the first part click here and read that then come back and read more of ....................The Battle for the Sword
Chapter 1 - Two Common Boys
They where comeing to the end of the meadow , and at the end of the where two boulders and they jumped behind them "I have to take a rest"said Jimmy. "OK"answered Jacob, then they both sat down "whats that big brother?" "It looks like tracks" they both were looking at 3 or 4 tracks in the ground "do you know what typ of tracks those are?" "NO?" "I thought you knew every typ of track" "not this one" "
Go get Joe to come here and thene stay home" "why?" "because I said so!" Thene Jimmy ran home crying "I hope he gets Joe" Then Jacob studyed the tracks. The tracks looked like something with a small palm and very long fingers. Just then he heard a hissing groul. He got up and looked around but he couldent see anything, He started to stand up and leave because he was scared but he only could stand up before something came up behind him. He turned around and gave a sharp yell "AHAHAH" "dont worry its only me
..Joe" Jacob sat down panting of fear "why did you scream?" Ο didnt scream!"OK, but why did you yell?" "I tought you were some monster" "
..moster?"
.why would you think such a thing?" Jacob paused then Joe sat down on a rock then got up a little.
This story goes on for more pages than I want to type out right now. I forced myself to enter it in just as he wrote it mistakes and all. I think maybe I'll get Collin to start a blog and he can enter in his own stories. Would you all be willing to give him some feedback?
We'll work on the spelling and grammar too --- I promise.
Happy Birthday Collin!

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