The other day the two older Chaos Girls played quietly in the backyard for almost 45 minutes straight. I'm not stupid, so periodically I went back there to make sure that Birdie was not offering LaLa up as a burnt sacrifice to the Gods of the Little Tykes play set, or eating ants. I would quietly check by peeking 'round the corner... if they saw me who KNEW what might happen... demands for food and drink, sacrifice ME!? Instead of their usual high decibel and mess-bringing pursuits, they were playing quietly under the Grapevine. Had I gotten closer, I would have seen that they had dug up a couple of feet of flowerbed dirt and dumped it onto a patch of lawn, they were making a place to keep their "pet earthworms." Even if I had seen, I don't know that I would have stopped them... a girl needs just a few seconds peace to start dinner ya know!
This morning as I was getting the baby down for her nap, they went in the backyard and found that the automatic sprinklers had turned their "Worm Preserve" into a glorious mud puddle. Like any self-respecting two and four year old they stripped down nekkid and started rolling... flipping mud spatters and painting themselves. They also took a brand new canister of bendy straws to... make flowers? pretend fireworks? use as pea or rather, hard-green-grape shooters? enjoy the hot pink of the cheap plastic straws against the green of the grass?
Dunno.
They lost straw privileges for a week but DANG we had fun playing "Spray Down the Chaos Girls" with the backyard hose.
Thursday, August 31, 2006
Mah name is MUDD
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You know I think the Chaos girl would have a great time playing with Tink and Pan - although I'm a little afraid they may offer up Tink to the Gods of the Little Tykes playset - I sometimes wonder if that is what Pan is thinking when they are outside...
Sounds like a whole lotta fun. For them. And a whole lotta work. For you.
Dang. I just snorted water out of my nose.
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