What can happen right after hearing “I’m bored, mom”

Kids amaze me. How they can come up with something creative and entertaining to do in almost any situation. Too bad the ideas don’t always fit with the circumstances (ie. tag in the china shop). Over the past few weekends at the cottage they have devised several ‘games’. Here you see them working together to put a potato chip on a fishing line (no worries, there was no hook). And then the fun began…fishing for siblings:

Seriously, a chip and a fishing rod. It’s brings to mind the image of the kid playing with the pot and spoon as the new drum sits beside them. And another game…try to hit your siblings with water drops flung from a duster: 

Then, just this past weekend we were invaded by hordes of flying insects…not sure what they were. Some said they were baby fish flies, others said male mosquitos…they blanketed the boathouse, the dock, the grass and there were clouds of them in the air. At first no one wanted to go outside…but eventually the kids came up with games for this situation as well. One was to run down to the dock and sit in the swarm for as long as possible…and they would start settling on you pretty quick. The other was scoop up as many as you can with a stick and burn them in the fire.  Yuck and double yuck!

Our kids can be pretty rambounctious and some would say they are down right wild. I know not everyone appreciates their… shall we say…’spunk’ and ‘passion’ but they rock when it comes to creative play.  I love that about them.

~ by joannek on June 10, 2009.