Warriors

After tonight's bedtime reading (Calvin and Hobbes) to Jon and Greg, I went back upstairs to build a fire (26 degrees and snow tonight). Soon I heard them engaging in war games. Instead of scolding them for getting out of their beds, I decided to go downstairs and photograph them for this blog post. I knew that, being boys, they probably did not have enough opportunities to expend physical energy and aggressiveness at school. Their agility impressed me. I told Jon that I think they should lower the draft age to ten. He replied, "Oh, no Dad. We don't want to join the Army; we just want to join the Air Force and drop bombs on terrorists!