Imaginary Play

I love watching young children play.  I love how spontaneous they are and how creative they can be.  Watching young children play inspires me to find my own ways to play.  I'll be honest and say that I'm really missing taking pictures of Mother Nature - particularly the sunsets over Orca Bay in Cordova.  Photography has turned into a hobby of mine and I'm finding the desire to go and explore where Mother Nature is hidden in the "big city' increasing each day - especially since we are gaining sunlight and it's still light out when we get home from work.

Hurray for the return on sunshine.  Okay- so it's not super bright after school, but it's bright enough to suit the kids up and play outside for about 30 minutes before dinner.  We have a perfect little mound of snow where we shovel the drive way and it makes the best slide for the kids.  So much fun to watch them enjoy being outdoors.  We live in a pretty low traffic area, so we even used the sled and let the kids slide down the driveway into the street.  One of us stood in the road to watch for traffic and the other gave the kids a little push down the driveway.  Oh - it was so much fun and awesome to be able to play outside. 

Leinna learned all about the letter "M" this week and gave us a little puppet show with her mouse she made.  The stories this girl comes up with - what an imagination.  

 

What fun to add some dress up clothes to our imaginary play.  Papa wasn't too sure about Princess Dress up clothes for a Christmas gift, but I think now that he's seen how much fun Leinna has in them, he's warming up to the idea.  I think when Leinna was all dressed up and then went a grabbed the basketball and slam dunked it - he was okay with dress up time :O)  No - Leinna does not have make-up on - her cheeks were just naturally rosy at the time - Leif thought I put make-up on.  

Let's not forget our Mister- he's busy with imaginary play too...

He's all about making airplane sounds and flying his planes.  If he doesn't have a plane in his hand, anything and everything gets pushed along the floor and car sounds are loudly coming out of his mouth.  So interesting how boys and girls play differently.  Can you see the wet collar?  Lukkas is cutting 5 teeth!!  Poor kid - all 4 eye teeth at one time and then his 2nd incisor on the top finally came in.  Now he's been really chewing on his fingers towards the back of his mouth - can he really be getting his 2nd molars?  I just feel for the kid - but he's a trooper.  I guess since he only had the top 2 and bottom 2 teeth for the longest time, his mouth is playing catch-up.

 

Looking forward to a 3 day weekend as we have Monday off in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. I'm all done with school work already too - so it's going to be a fun filled weekend of quality time with family and friends.