I know, I know. Steve wasn't too happy this happened, either, and I have to admit, it was all me. Because Nick has been talking about a bow and arrow for a year, and he finally found one in the Target circular that had soft tips.
So I got it for him. He has 3 arrows, two with soft tips, and one with a suction cup tip. He is only allowed to keep these outside, and can only use them pointing away from the house, cars, his brothers, anything else alive.
Also, his brothers are not allowed to use it.
Nathan came to terms with this very quickly. He dealt with it by making his own bow and arrow. He found a large stick, an elastic from an old tether ball game, and a few smaller sticks, and he keeps them together, outside, and follows all of Nick's rules.
Andrew, however, doesn't quite get it. I caught him outside one morning, when his brothers were both at school. He was trying to shoot the arrows in the correct direction. I took a few pictures, and then reminded him it wasn't his toy. He then took the bow and arrow to the front of the house, where he practiced shooting straight into the air. One of the arrows landed on top of the car, and if I hadn't noticed the bow on the front walk, he wouldn't have mentioned it at all, and we would have driven off to school and let it fly off onto the road somewhere.
But it all worked out, so all is well.
Little Robin Hoods.
1 comment:
It's so hard to let one & not another...especially when they are so close in age. And, of course, Andy wants to do everything his older brothers do; they are SO COOL!
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