Zach and His Swords

Zach loves swords, he is always challenging us to a duel of some kind. He can't die though, he is a robot. You just know you are going to lose every time because of some quirky thing he comes up with.

Well about a month and a 1/2 ago he was playing at our neighbor's house, I am not sure how it happened or what he was doing but he threw a sword up in the air and it landed on the neighbors roof. It then slid down into the rain gutter so you couldn't see it. He came home so distraught about losing his sword. We told him we would get it back. Dave and I forgot about it for awhile, but not Zach. He reminded us all the time and we just never got the ladder out to go and get it.

Zach reminded Dave again Sunday morning about his sword. Dave told him that if he saw Aaron at church he would ask him if he could get it down. Ali saw Aaron first and rambled on to him about something lost on his roof...when Aaron saw Dave he asked him what Ali was talking about. Dave reminded him about the sword which Zach had lost while playing with Matthew. Aaron had forgotten about it too. After church Dave went over and retrieved the sword from the rain gutter.

Zach was broken hearted after Dave retrieved it, since it had been in the sun and weather for a month the colored handle was now silver, and the silver blade was turning black as the silver paint is flaking off. He cried for quite some time. He said he didn't want a black ugly sword, as I tried to convince him that a black sword is cool. After a little bit he came up to me and said, "mom, I am really really going to miss this sword, really a lot" and walked over and put it in the garbage can. Then he went and sat on Dave's lap and pouted for a bit.

He is on a quest to find the exact sword at a store now.

Dave and I giggled about it all night. Zach cracks us up.

Here he is hiding behind the couch, wanted to be sad in private.