What's a bored little boy to do?

Poor little Abram spends many looooong, and lonely days.  Luckily he doesn't really know it.  I notice that when the kids go back to school after a long weekend, all he can really think about is food.  Then, as the long monotonous days go by until the weekend comes once again, he starts to find ways to entertain himself. He spends many hours with his great imagination playing with his "guys" (action figures).  He follows me from room to room with them, getting interested in and even helping with jobs that he would never do if there were anything else going on.

One of his very favorite things to do is to grab my phone and take pictures of his world. I found three pictures of me sewing a skirt for Isabelle out of left-overs from Kami's Christmas formal:

Shawn and I took the little boys along with us to Twin Falls on Friday, and Abram was having a hard time seeing out the windows.  He took pictures by holding his arm over his head and then looked at the pictures to see what there was to see outside:)  And he took a few of the inside of Shawn's car:

He ended up getting pretty car-sick so we tried to make the trip as interesting as possible for him.  We went out to eat at a restaurant, bought him some toys on clearance at Target to keep him entertained on the way home- because while we came prepared for plenty to keep Pace entertained, we failed to think of Abram- and we stopped and looked down into the huge gorge that we had to drive over to get into the town:

Shawn trying to take a picture himself and Abram and get the river behind...

There he got it!

He spends an awful lot of time enjoying and playing with this new little brother of his, and they are getting pretty cute together.  Abram does his best to get him to laugh, and Pace doesn't disappoint.  I manage to get a few things done as they laugh away at Abram's silliness.

I have noticed that Abram usually isn't very far from Pace, and seems to be in most of his pictures:

And then, when Pace gets tired and cranky and needs a nap, Abram is a little disappointed until he remembers that he just might be able to wheedle his way into getting to watch an episode of "The Krat Brothers" on PBS kids because I will want the house as quiet as possible in hopes that maybe Pace will nap for a little while. Usually he likes to watch it in his dad's office.  And he makes a pretty cute executive: