Just play

I'm all into "play therapy" right now.

With the big girls out working most of the time, Christina at camp and Steve at work, there is a lot of time for the twins to have to come up with their own entertainment. It's good for them. I am slowly but surely seeing some brain expansion.  They are finding new things to do and create and even imagine. They've gotten two days worth of entertainment and creativity out of one sticky notepad so far. There is a sticky note on ever door and every chair of the house. Missy was good about decorating her papers and "writing" on them before assigning them a spot. Buster needed a little prompting from me that blank sticky notes on things was a waste of time :) so now they all have something written on them. They are signs, they are name tags, they are money, they are band-aids they are ....

Little Missy had a couple of stuffed animals in a tiny wagon yesterday and she went "shopping", cooked "food", and played house by herself for the first time EVER!

They are getting into their share of mischief, too. I found them emptying the dog food barrel all over the garage floor. Brianna caught them playing in the Honda pushing buttons and popping the trunk open and slamming it over and over. They thought the kittens would love to play in the sprinkler with them... I try to keep an eye, but I am finally getting to my spring cleaning and I also want them to learn a little independence.

It's sad when a child has been so carted around from place to place with no time to just be home to play and so spoon fed activities and doped up with drugs that they have never learned to play and think for themselves.It's taken us nearly 5 months and I am so excited to see  play, pretend, imagination, and experiments emerging. Truly, schooling these kids would be impossible without this. If there is no imagination, no excitement for learning, what have we got?