The other day Xander was inside napping and Nick just had to get some energy out. I had to work so I sat outside working on my computer while he rode his bike up and down the driveway. He was having a great time doing something - and I was getting work done - so win win!
Nick came up and I happened to notice how his hands, face, shirt, knees, and arms were black. Like black with soot on them. I didn't make a big deal about it - just started to watch what he was doing.
Nick would ride his bike over to the rose bushes, pick up a handful of that nasty rubber tire mulch, ride his bike back to Christopher's car and was putting it in his exhaust pipe. He was black from all the soot from the pipe. I went and looked at it and he had filled BOTH pipes FULL of mulch.
Of course that tired him out - but he wasn't tired - so we turned on Spiderman. Suddenly I looked up and saw......
