The Lawnmower!

For the last 2 years Christian has had the job of mowing the front and backyard. Craig does pay him to do it but Christian HATES it. In fact it was so funny while we were looking for a house in Frisco besides Christian's room the most important thing to him was the size of the yard! Our yard in Sugar Land was very large! We looked at one house where the subdivision mowed your front yard for you and Christian was all for that house!! Anyway as the mowing season started coming around Caleb informed Craig that he would really like to mow the yard. Craig and I debated if Caleb was old enough and decided that as long as one of us were outside with him he would probably do okay. So on a very windy Saturday (about 2 weeks ago) the mowing commenced!

Craig at first mowed a square around the back yard so that Caleb would know how to follow. Then he talked and showed Caleb how to follow the pattern. Caleb did an okay job. He had a very hard time pushing the lawn mower but once he got it going he was fine. The other hard time he had was turning. He had a hard time lifting the wheels up and making the turn. The only other difficulty he had was staying along a straight line. He did have to go back over a couple of rows where he had "missed" some weeds.

I was so proud of him for not giving up! He pushed through and finished the whole backyard. He was very tired and had blisters on his hands but wants to do it again!