Our new "thing".

Keep trying!

It caught!

Great fire Jared!

Time to relax.

Yum!!

We've been doing this about once a week. After dinner we'll head out to the back yard where Jared will build a fire for us. He's getting pretty good at it. Of course he still needs Doug's help, but he knows how to build the wood to start it, and can light it easily with flint and steel. Once the fire gets going he knows how to carefully pile more wood on without squelching his creation. Of course, I'm always a little leery when he leans over the fire with all that gel he uses to maintain his cockatoo spike (see above). We tried to explain how dangerous this is, and Doug decided to demonstrate what happens when hair products meet fire. A few squirts of hairspray into the fire did the trick, and since then Jared has been much more cautious. Anyway,The kids usually like to roast marshmallows, so of course that's what we end up doing. It's my favorite way to end the day.