Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Not Much Has Changed . . .

Collin turned 12 years old yesterday and he's grown up so much . . . but not much has changed other than that.
He still loves to farm with his Dad
- He chose to take Monday off of school (sort of a birthday gift) to run the new John Deere swather all day long. (even though asked both boys forgot to take a picture of him running it)10 years ago, when Collin was 2 and he would jump at any chance to work with Cameron on tractors or on the farm.
Collin still collects or wants to play with or build tractor toys.

-This is the set up he currently has on the floor of his room. He designed and built the wooden shop and the disk thing out of k'nex in the background.
10 years ago, when forced to play inside, he would line up all of his tractor toys on the carpet to play with.
So . . . although Collin has grown up and can now run the real tractors himself . . . he hasn't really changed and we love him that way!!

Collin wanted the Bybee boys to come over for Sunday dinner when we celebrated his birthday. These 2 boys both love the farm as much as Collin and he loves to have them over to talk farming. Collin picked our dinner - ribs, green bean casserole, baked beans, potato salad and his favorite "dirt" cake.

5 comments:

Heather B said...

That is darling that he loved it when he was little, and he still loves it now. Cameron must be so proud. :)

Attitude of Gratitude said...

Happy Birthday Collin! Blaine and I were laughing at how much Colton looks like Collin when he was a little guy. It's funny how Colton also loves to line up his tractors. Must be in the DNA.

Deborama said...

Too funny! Look at your adorable scrapbook pages! You should do that, (scrapbook) the reason your so behind is because Girls are so much harder and need much more sparkle and fluff, boy pages are quick and easy! You can only use so many colors and not much fru fru! :) and here comes another..... :)

calawayfamily said...

Holy cow u guys have already started cutting? thats real early dont you think so were not cutting till the tenth well anyways Happy b-day collin!

Michelle said...

Happy Belated Birthday Collin! It cracks me up that Collin still loves the exact same things. I guess he just knew what we wanted in life from Day 1 and nothing is going to change that.