Imagination!

Mackenzie and Jerrod watching the US Open

Kylie playing with buckets

Weekends in our house are usually pretty quiet. We don't plan a lot of big activities to do with the kids, and don't keep them so busy they can't do what they want to do around the house. This weekend was no different. We stayed at home, let the kids play around the house and not have to worry about doing a lot of extra stuff.

Gabryle "cleaning"

 The fun thing about just letting them do what they want during the weekend, is watching them come up with new games to play or new ways to entertain themselves while playing in their bedrooms. The girls usually play school, or work, and 95% of the time Mackenzie is the teacher. Kylie is most always the student, and every now and then Gabryle gets to play school with them too, until he decides he wants to start tearing up the papers or trying to eat the crayons. The girls also love to play their radio and dance around their room. It's usually always to Justin Beiber, but occasionally they grab one of my old Cd's and listen to it.

Mackenzie Reading while Kylie
fixes her horses hair.

 One nice thing that we have gotten the kids to know, is that they don't have to have us find them something to do. They can go find a simple toy in their room and have fun with it. they also love to sit and look at books and sit and color. Most of the time also they would rather play than watch television. I love that about them. Yes they have their favorite shows they like watching, but usually after that they find something do do else ware and keep themselves busy. Sometimes Gabryle can even get the girls to go with him into his room and play trucks with him. It usually starts out as trucks but ends up being some weird game that Mackenzie or Kylie has come up with, but brother doesn't care as long as he still has them playing with him.

Kylie trying to do a handstand
in her princess and Tinkerbell
boxes

I love listening to them play. I love that they play so well together also. I think a lot of kids today don't play as much as they should. They rely on cartoons and movies to keep them busy and video games. Yes our kids watch TV and play video games, but for the most part, I limit their games and usually with the TV I don't have to limit it. They get bored with it. The shows that they do watch on TV are nine times out of ten on our local PBS station, so I don't mind them watching the shows on there. Mackenzie's favorite is Word Girl, Kylie's favorite and Word World and Gabryle loves watching Super Why. That's probably why they have such great imaginations and able to play so well without being told to.

Hope you enjoyed the pictures I have posted randomly throughout this blog post.  These were taken this past weekend while the kids played.

Till Next Time!