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Toys

Luke has found a variety of toys to play with at his grandparent's house. They include:
  • A bucket of sand, a bucket of compost, and some plastic pots that flowers came in.
  • Two ice cream pails, one of which is filled with clothespins. He keeps biting on the open end of the clothespin and pinching his fingers.
  • The wood burning stove in the family room, which has lots of levers and knobs and is fun to bang on.
  • Folding picture frames, which both have pictures of family in them and are fun to open and close.
The girls had a good time swinging on two swings hung from the clothesline: it's a very complex system, where the girls influence each other's swings and how high they are off the ground and how they bounce up and down. They had a great time... until the clothesline broke.

Eleanor is reading. She's moved on from the Magic Treehouse books to the reference guides. Right now she's reading The Voyages of Dr. Doolittle, which has the advantage of being long enough that she doesn't breeze through it in one day.

Amanda got to ride in the Burly, a wagon pulled behind her grandparents' tandem bicycle. She was the only one of the children who would have sat still for long enough to enjoy the 45 minute ride.

Mama got to stain the deck while everyone else went to the swimming pool. It was lovely! Today I get to do the laundry... I'll do other things as well, but it is nice just going through the day without being the only person that the children can ask for attention.

This of course ignores the best toys, which are the grandparents themselves. We're all having a good time.
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