Treasures...

I cleaned Colter's bedroom yesterday. What a feat! I went through his dresser, closet, bookshelves, under the bed, and toy drawers. A few of the things we unearthed:

*Bones from some kind of an animal...neatly tucked into a drawer. He swears they are "pig bones"...

*Rocks...big rocks, little rocks, all kinds of rocks...

*A big chunk of an iron-ore rock...

*Papers, papers, papers...old junk mail, pictures torn from magazines, old stamps...

*Old magazines...tool books, hunting books, heavy equipment books, sporting books...

*Chunks of tar from the road...

*Empty shells from a gun...

*Feathers from his current bird as well as his old bird, plus feathers from various birds in the wild...

*Small pieces of wood, pieces of old rubber, a huge chunk of copper pipe, a piece of jagged metal, etc...

*Several empty toilet paper rolls...taped together and covered with crepe paper to look like a sticks of dynamite...

*Batteries (old & new), nails (used & new), grommets, his daddy's tools, knitting needles, old cell phones, etc. etc...

*Oh, and we found his pocket knife that had been missing for several weeks...tucked into the pocket of a pair of jean shorts...

So much junk for a little boy. And so different than the girls' collections. But, ya know, there's really something kind of sweet and endearing about all of it...it's a neat look into what's important to him in his busy, little boy world.