Gold

The boys have been infatuated with metal. They collect it wherever they can, including retrieving spent rifle cartridges to add to their stash that is heading to the recycling center.  I would like to claim that we are just that ecologically minded, but that is certainly not the case.
Every rock that has any sort of color to it while we are hiking they examine to make sure it is not some sort of precious metal.
This has rubbed of on Nickles.  We were working in the shed and he kept bringing us rocks that he had discovered in the sand dirt box so we could help him examine them.
Then, he decided he wanted me take pictures of them.

"Pic rock, Mom.  Pic rock."

And so I did....because it doesn't matter how many pictures I snap now that we live in the digital age!

Then he got weird ~ and began eating them!