Rustin's little update.

Rustin's update is much like Elijah's.  Since the two are inseparable, they kind-of have the same things in common.  Not to mix that up with the same personality, in that respect they are very much different.  They may be twins but they have very different personalities. Rustin loves, Bay blades, playing with friends, playing Sorry and uno and making forts, just to have Easton tear the oh so fragile things down (really how sturdy can a fort be when it's made out of blankets and pillows or cardboard?).  He too is in cub scouts and had fun building and racing his car with his Dad.  He likes the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books too.  He is into "Scary Movies", whenever we ask what they want to watch, his reply is, "I want a scary movie", Scooby Doo is getting bumped off the "Scary List" everyday that he gets older unfortunately.  The Indiana Jones movies safely classify as scary movies for him.  I still make him close his eyes during the super gross parts, like when they are ripping hearts out of people's bodies, yeah that's a little too scary for his age.  His new found love is Netflix, when the weekend comes rolling around they know it's time to start calling dibs on the good movies that they want to watch.  And with 3 kids calling dibs you've got to be quick or be last on the waiting list.  He hearts Netflixs!
It's baseball season so half of the week when we aren't playing in games the boys get their baseball bag and head across the street in the big field next to the pool to play some baseball.  Brooke usually goes with them when he's home to pitch to them while I alternate pitching to Cooper and Easton.  But when we can't go they pitch to each other and for the most part that goes really well.  But there are many times when testosterone gets in the way and they start yelling at each other to pitch better or to swing at the ball, then it starts going south.  Like the rest of the boys, he is ready to be a fish in the pool! 
This little story happened a few weeks ago once upon a time when the weather was nice and not a monsoon outside.  Brooke was restaining the play set while I was weeding.  As he was painting the boys were climbing on the slide and one of our neighbor girls and her friends walked by.  Brooke seized the opportunity to tease Rustin for a little bit because he knew he had a crush on her.  So he said out loud, "Hey look Rustin, it's your girlfriend Megan!"  So here Brooke is thinking that he's doing a little embarrassing but instead Rustin said out loud, "OH SNAP!!!  Megan, I love you!!!"  The poor girl just covered her face with both hands and ran off.  Brooke Says, "Rustin just stood there like a man...so proud of himself for proclaiming his love to the girl of his dreams... [Brooke] on the other hand [didn't] know whether [he] should be absolutely and extremely proud of him or if [he] should be quite concerned that at such a young age, he is so forward with the "ladies"... we'll have to see.  I just tell Rustin that girls have cooties, some day that won't work any more.  So Brooke's little recon mission of embarrassing Rustin backfired in a funny way.  Our lives would definitely not be the same without our "RED" personality of a son Rustin.