Today's Toby

Just a totally casual brother hangout on the porch. 2 thumbs up.  

Team Toby vs. Team Dad/Spencer   

Getting his reps in.  

Waiting for dad to play, but he keeps talking about 'needing content'.

It's fun when you can make your kid cackle.   

Looking out the window, waiting to see Dad's car drive up the street.  

Toby would like you to know that he is stinky. His parents can neither confirm nor deny this statement.  

To the kids' delight (and the ants' demise), we were able to squeeze in one more day of "water fun". Toby scouted put (and promptly soaked) any ants he found.  

I'm not sure if there's a spider (or frog) character in the Bad Guys books, but if there is I may need to be a little more cautious around the house...  

A quick stop for some items at the grocery store after swim class meant donuts in the back of the car!  

While trying to untwist your seatbelt is no t8me for photos.  

Hilarity at the table.  

Managing his fantasy football team. Very serious business.  

This morning, we happened to intersect with Toby's buddy, Hudson.  

When you are determined to throw your socks at your mom. But also determined to hold on the books you are carrying.  

Surf's up.  

Toby's best friend played in a Fantasy Football League last year, and he was excited to do it. So this year I found 5 parents and 5 kids to do a parent/child league. Here we are going to hos very first draft. And here he is during the draft. Do you think he was excited? And here's the draft room in action.  

The proper way to go down a slide.  

Some would call this mugging for the camera. They would be right.  

Those Spiderman-wall-climbing-powers are going to kick in any day now.  

Bedtime candids. About to turn silly in 3... 2... 1! Silly!  

Beware of the orange gremlin. His scowl is not to be triffled with.  

On our train back to the city Cotton's seat was a bit lumpy. She dealt with it well.  

Apparently, immersive fish tanks are all the rage.  

Found a few more pictures from vacation. These were taken on the trolley on the New York side of Niagara. For the record, he's not actually mad. He just thinks it's fun to sour when he sees someone taking a picture.  

We got to see Toby's self-portrait at Back to School night. He is surrounded by some his favorite things: money, diamonds, pizza, brackets, science, soccer, football, and basketball.  

Now that Toby is at the upper elementary school, he gets dismissed on his own. Which means he now crosses over to the library all by himself to meet us. He's very pleased with this new independence.  

Why would you want to lean on the couch cushions when you could sit between them?  

 1st day as a 3rd grader at the big school. So far, he's very pleased. He and his teacher share the same birthday and the prospects for sugary snacks have increased exponentially.

Toby requested mini-golf for his birthday. We went to aSafari mini-golf. On one hole we were greeted by this big guy. He doesn't look happy to see us, but he was.