This weekend our family spent most of the weekend outside. We played and puttered about in the backyard for hours and hours and hours. The fact that the hammock was brought out meant that it was just warm enough in the afternoons to lounge, although mittens were needed in the morning and a cup of tea in midday. We even had a small fire in our chimenea last night.
I want to make note of just a few of the things that my just four year old boys did as I always find it helpful to see or hear other children doing the same things.
They ran around with the neighbors pretending they were chipmunks and putting each other in a "den". Then S said, " I 'm going to cook you!"
They played in the hammock "boat"...first with three other friends just giggling and swinging and even singing. Then falling out and saying "man overboard." Soon the kids who fell out were octopus trying to wiggle and bump the boat.
The boys made pretend beans and rice and quinoa & pumpkin bread and served it at their hotel ( which was basically a little nook next to the azaelas.)
We watched a crow holding a twig on the wire, drop it and then go and get another.
The boys dug in their mud pits and worked on making bridges with sticks & the neighbor kids (age 3 & 5).
They danced around and taunted the lawn mower, staying a safe distance away while papa mowed.
They helped plant a new garden bed.
They played with sticks and balls and invented a game where the ball had to go through a "chute" which was the legs of an upside down chair.
They played on an upside down wheelbarrow.
Climbed trees.
Fed the neighbors chickens.
On a neighborhood bike ride, they stopped and investigated some new saplings and crosscuts of stumps that had been installed to keep cars from parking on the boulevard. Then they climbed the stumps. Lifted their bikes on the stumps. Played for at least 20 minutes.
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