Today I loved sitting on the sidewalk with my boys, pretending we
were building a campfire. Coop came across a pile of sticks. Heaven to
a little boy! And that began our campfire. We sang songs about
camping; we pretended to roast marshmallows and ate them; and we built a
really big bonfire. Austin was so cute with it all, too. Sitting with
Coop and I around the sticks, holding his own stick, and copying Coop
and my every gesture: putting the stick over the "fire" to roast a
marshmallow or waving his stick around as we were singing, pretending
our sticks were conducting wands.
At one point, Austin
handed me a big leaf, which I tucked behind my ear. Apparently, that's
pretty funny to an almost-one-year old, and he handed me another leaf
and then tapped his head, like he was telling me to put it behind my ear
with the other one. I did, and he smiled and clapped.
I found a really long, bendy stick, which I shaped into the letter "C" and then made a "4" with some smaller sticks. Coop instantly saw what I was doing and said, "Mom! That's a GREAT idea! Let's make our letters with the camping sticks!" After several letters, however, I think they were maybe getting to be too abstract, because he moved on to making our stick letters into a big bonfire pile.
And then, it started to rain and we just sat there, singing away, and it was fabulous.
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