Brrrr. It's been cold outside. I mean, it's January -- so, yeah.
But the kids have reached this delightful age where they can play happily outside for quite a while. And that's nice.
They play a combination of construction and baking. They measure things like "baking soda" (sand) and "flour" and "sugar" into dump trucks, which then carry the ingredients over to the "cookie sheet" (spare baseboard pieces) and dump them into little piles.
Or into muffin tins, depending on what they're baking that day.
It's a really cute little mixture of stereotypical "girl play" and "boy play." Makes me happy that both genders seem to enjoy both types of play.
One of our favorite purely construction play scenarios is "making a road." First comes the bull dozer to clear debris and "large rocks," leaving them in a pile. Then a loader lifts the rocks into a dump truck, which carries them away.
Then a grader comes to make the roadway all nice and flat, then the paver, and finally the roller. Since we don't own a grader, paver, or roller truck, there's a lot of imagination and improvisation there. It's pretty fun.
Who knew becoming a mom would broaden my imaginative play horizons so much.
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