Boy' will be Boy's...

My parents have a fireplace at one end of the living room...when we are there my mom often moves the big coffee table in front of the fireplace to keep the little kids away just in case the fireplace is hot...however, Grammie's little trick no longer works...James simply crawls under the table to get to the beloved fireplace...
When my brother was James age he loved to play with the bricks on the hearth...he zoomed his little cars all over the bricks. One day he took some of his construction cars and dug and dug with all his might until he picked the mortar out and some of the bricks fell off! I find it interesting that Colter had such an obsession with those bricks...neither of the girls younger than him ever played with the bricks, nor did Elsie...but now that James and Oliver are around the bricks are "mysteriously" falling off again!

Both James and Oliver constantly had those bricks off the hearth...and they were covered in mortar! Those boys are silly boys...gotta wonder what is going on in that little mind of theirs...