This Gentle Boy

This gentle kind boy

friend to all tender hearted

children and animals alike

 

I love the way Anders is with young children.  He is gentle, patient, adoring, loving, and truly smitten.  Here he is at a party helping this new friend apply some stickers to her dress.  She followed him all around and he treated her as if she were the most precious child at the party.   He is such a great kid, such a kind boy. 

All Dressed Up

Famale

 Came home in Kuba's kindergarten folder.  It's a keeper. 

Painting at Arts Field Day

 

This was just one station of 12 at school the other day.  The boys did cartooning, a costume relay, hip hop dancing, circus arts, drumming, story telling, marble painting and more.   This is an annual event at school and it's pretty cool.  Here they are painting pieces for the posts in the school yard - beautification of our gardens.    All 300 kids got a chance to paint these.  It's a mighty fine way to end the school year if you ask me.   

Honey Bee

Beekeepers. 
The boys had their first experience as a beekeeper's assistant this weekend.  They suited up in kid sized bee suits and helped  our neighbor smoke out and check his hives.  The boys were brave, very brave!  Kuba calmly watched and Anders took his job seriously, using the bee smoker to interrupt the bee's alarm system and help calm them down.  Our neighbor lifted each section out and checked them as about 30,000 bees crawled back into the comb, or flew around in a swarm.  NO one got stung, and Kuba stated "I know I am safe, but I don't know that I know it yet."  The neighbor was impressed with their steady focus and lack of fear.  How cool is that?  Neighborhood honey being made by our local bees right now.