On the go

We visited the Renaissance Festival the weekend Aunt Sheila and Cousin Claire were in town.  The main reason for our visit was that Oliver is well-read on birds of prey.  And they had a demonstration with raptors, which he really wanted to see.  We walked the whole festival, he played the games, he shared a turkey drumstick and soft pretzel with Dad, and we all enjoyed seeing the hawks and falcons in action.

Oliver and Joe have been biking to school and back a couple times each week.  He loves being on his bike and is very committed to practicing enough to get up to a skill level where he can take off his training wheels.  I love how passionate he is about bike riding.  I hope it is a sign that he will identify things in his life that he enjoys and will be willing to work hard to improve at them.

 

One of his other current passions is fighter planes.  We have several books and he is becoming quite knowledgeable about the different kinds of fighter planes, WWI and WWII (at least who fought who and what kinds of planes were used in the different wars), the mechanics of flight and jet engines, and (with less enthusiasm from me) the types of missiles/bombs and tactics to avoid them.  The Udvar-Hazy flight museum is an extension of the air and space museum.  It is a big hanger out at Dulles airport full of fighter planes, a space shuttle, helicopters, and other fight stuff.  It is his favorite weekend excursion.

I love Oliver's passion and thirst for knowledge.  I am so happy to be a part of his world.