This picture was taken through the front window earlier in the summer, as we sat on the porch swing and felt someone watching us. We turned around to see this little elf-face peeking out in the dark. Is he in bed when he should be? He is not. He is padding down the stairs to find us and ask us to "come give him a hug and kiss in a while."
That Malachi-guy! He is so sweet, so smart, so happy, so delighted with himself and with the world around him. His kindergarten year has been full of new discoveries and new interests, but he still loves rockets and birds and the color green. He still wants to be an astronaut someday, but he also allows for the possibility of being a mineralogist or a volcanologist or a geologist or a seismologist. Really, I have yet to find something he isn't interested in. We watched some videos of tsunamis and I asked if they were too scary or if they were going to give anyone nightmares. "They'll give me goodmares," Malachi, who loves such things, assured me.
Green lights, his favorite color
Malachi's picture of a city skyline---most of the skyscrapers had to be tiny so the really tall one would look tall enough, he said. Then there's also the building that can blast off into the sky and turn into a rocket ship.
Malachi's model of Frank Lloyd Wright's "Fallingwater"
Looking uncertain in front of the weather green screen at the museum
Building a marble track on peg board. He was SO persistent at this, trying and rebuilding again and again until he figured out a way to make the marble land in the cup.
