Towers

J. loves building things. This is a tower he built on a stool in their room. It is mostly made of Jenga blocks. He builds with blocks, legos, and mud. When he has no other alternative he makes cities on graph paper. He will build little towns in any dirt. For a while he had a lovely little village in the middle of the back back. Unfortunately it was where everyone drove there cars or trucks though the yard. He was devastated when it was completely demolished after several passes of a truck. He has started to build them in out of the way places. This summer after I had the corn started he came into the garden and started scouting a new site for a town. I told him no cities in the garden. The next day I went out and he had made a small hut and a bridge between the corn sprouts. I really couldn't be mad at him because it was so ingenious. Although I did tell him not do. What a dilemma.

J2 went shopping with his dad one night and brought home a bell. J. completely confiscated it for a while and made a bell tower. It took a while for it to work without falling over. this first one stood all night. He was concerned that it would be knocked over the next day when his little 2 yr old cousin came over. In the morning he went in the bedroom to get J2 up for school and knocked it over.

I'm not sure how to make it go the right way. The mess that it is standing on is his "desk". He was very proud of it and rang the bell often. Very often. Almost too often. One would say almost incessantly. I was secretly glad that it fell and that the plot to destroy it would never come to pass.

He is thinking that an Architect might not be a bad gig, if the Marine Biology gig doesn't work out. We are supposed to get a lot of rain starting Sunday so expect more mud huts.