Showing posts with label Playing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Playing. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

How I Know They Are Glad to be Home...

Yesterday, I found myself mostly tethered to the bottom half of my house. I was busy getting caught up on laundry, paying bills, banking, returning e-mails, downloading pictures, reading blogs, and Facebook- you know doing the important stuff that has to be done after you've been away. The kids played relatively quietly upstairs. I rarely saw them except for the occasional request for a drink or meal. PJs weren't exchanged for clothes until friends showed up late in the day and when a friend suggested they play at his house my son declined, wanting to stay home. I couldn't blame him; it was nice to just stay where we were.

Later I went upstairs and found what had been keeping  my little munchkins so busily employed. I knew that all of the Legos were being played with as I found two fully clothed children in the bathtub the night before (and a third who I would bet good money on was in the tub until he heard me coming in) testing the seaworthiness of their creations. But yesterday their creativity stretched from ships to forts and bases which were all promptly bombed and blown to smithereens in a myriad of different, yet ultimately cool ways.
Or so I hear.

Operation Destruction, in turn littered Emma's and the playroom with toys, stuffys, action figures, Legos, and books galore.
To describe it in a word- disaster.

Today, we made Mickey Mouse sugar cookies for the neighbors who helped out with the cat, turtle, and the pile of mail I forgot to suspend delivery of.

We also played with play dough.

Then we painted.

Basically, we just moved from one mess to another.

In other words, things at the Parke home are back to normal.
It's good to be back.

I think.



BTW- I don't always take picture of messes around my house. But my new camera finally came, after we left for Disneyland I might add, and he and I are taking some time and of course pictures in order to get to know one another.

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Toilet paper usage # 17

What do you do when your son asks you to tape toilet paper to his face?



You oblige, of course.
Because it just so happens to complete the outfit.



And it creates super cute copy cats.



Toilet paper and a seven year old's ingenuity- you gotta love it!

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Autum and an afternoon with the Ash-man

Today was beautiful. Autum has graced us with her prescence yet again after a preview of winter to come and I am so grateful! I'm not ready for the icy clutches of winter; I haven't fully enjoyed fall enough yet. So as to not let the balmy weather pass us by, today that's what we decided to do.

And enjoy we did. The Ash-man and I put the tramp through it's paces before it is covered with a blanket of snow.
Here are some of our 'tramp tricks'.