Pinball Wizards

They’re pinball wizards!  Andrew understands how to get the ball into play.  A pinball game is the perfect entertainment with the bells and lights.  This one is The Big Indian.  It was a favorite of Terry’s during his college years.  The boys’ father. Ryan Joseph, grew up with it, so it’s a family heirloom.  Their parents owe us quite a few quarters now.

Nathan’s bottle of bubbles broke (all over the kitchen floor), so he now has taken over Andrew’s bottle.  Possession is 9/10ths of the law.  He was struggling to carry all his favorite possessions at once, so he now has the perfect man bag for it.  Inside the bag is a tube of cocoa butter, a lip balm, a vibrating mouse, a golf ball and the wand from the old bubble bottle.

Nathan has artistic tendencies.  I’m not certain what artists explored the two-handed technique he favors, but the finished products tend toward the abstract.  Gramma bought an easel for the boys this week.  The boys are most amused that magnets can be stuck on the inside of the easel.  They don’t quite get the idea that they should stick to the paper, yet.  Nathan was very amused by coloring his own hands and his brother’s white sweater with the markers.