Just being himself

One of the things I have always loved about N is that he has his own unique personality.  He is creative, crafty, enjoys cleaning and organizing, and not afraid to be who he is.  Last year, when he went to school, I lost sight of that person a bit.  He didn't have time for one thing, but he became more aggressive, more moody.  Now that we have settled back into homeschooling, I see my boy coming back to himself, and I love it.  I know everyone has different opinions about homeschooling, but for us, for my boy, I like watching him create things.  I like watching him be who he is.  I love that he will take the hand of his neighbor friend across the street and help him, or that he will play with his 2 yr old brother.  I like that he loves to have a conversation with grown-ups.  I like that he isn't afraid of being who he wants to be, b/c what he is, is one neat little kid!

He enjoys cooking!  He likes to make us breakfast now.  His dad and I were talking about the first time we made pancakes, and he said after we were married, and I said it was maybe once in college before we got married. 

He was wanting to create a Lego costume, so we were looking at ideas online.  It was late at night, and all he could find at the time was a used priority mail box and some sharpies.  He looked at one of his pirate legos while drawing this.

You would really have to see this in person to appreciate it (b/c the pic just looks like cardboard boxes), but he had gotten a book from the library about building things with cardboard boxes, so he turned the underneath part of his bed into his house.  He made paperchains for decoration, a stove and sink out of boxes, (I need to add a pic of his sink, b/c it looked really good!) That is his window hanging, and he made a door for little brother to crawl through.  He spend several days talking about the projects in that book.