Friday Photo Fiesta: The story of a summer told by two arms

The old adage "A picture is worth a thousand words" rings at least partially true for me this week. If you look at this picture, you can see at least four impending explanations.
The obvious: Yes, he is one of the cutest little men you will ever see sporting Clone War jammies and a healing black eye from a playground fall on vacation.

And yes, he has an obsession with wrist bands. These bands detail the summer experiences he has had so far much better than any picture I could take.

Starting with his left arm, the bright yellow wrist band is the scapegoat that began this odd collection. We went to Mount Olympus- a water and theme park-- in Wisconsin Dells for an afternoon a few weeks ago. The boys had an outrageously good time -- as did I~ (Besides a quick student sighting where I awkwardly had to acknowledge that we were all in our bathing suits. . . ) Evan immediately told me that day that he planned to leave his Mount Olympus wrist band on until school starts so that he can tell his friends about it. Hmm. .. Only two months to go.

The pink band above the yellow represents our tour of Churchill Downs that we took during our vacation last week. We toured the facilities and checked out the museum.

The red band on the right arm represents the band that we all had to wear in Maumee Bay where my extended family gets together to celebrate each fourth of July. (More on this coming later this week)

The final green band also was earned at Maumee Bay as part of a pirate scavenger hunt that the boys took part in.

Since the picture, Evan has downsized to only the red one and the yellow one. Those are the two most important to him. He solemnly vows to keep them on until school. We'll see. . . If so, that picture may just be worth at least a thousand words.