Adora

The adorable Adora

Launch

My sons used to spend hours upon hours arraying and arranging their knights in preparation for the launch of major military campaigns.

Lesson

Learn to make a dandelion chain.

Yah Spring!

Springalicious!

Toy

Stir

Stirring things up a bit.

Caged

I recollect jumping "Double Dutch" in the gigantic communal backyard of the housing area of Aberdeen Proving Grounds the dual ropes creating a movable cage of sorts.

Artificial

Nothing artificial - real pretend!

Equipment

For a bug safari you need the proper equipment

Cocoon

Once when I was a kid I was out playing in the woods(which is what kids did back in the day before over scheduling)and I discovered what I thought was a cocoon affixed to a branch. I brought it home and put it in a jar. The next day much to my astonishment hundreds of tiny praying mantises had emerged from the egg casing overnight. It was midwinter and I suppose the warmth of the house must have precipitated this praying mantis outburst. The poor darlings were so ravenous and having nothing else to eat in their little jar they were devouring one another. My mother wouldn't let me keep them in the house so I had to let them loose in the freezing cold. I've always felt sad about that.

Ahead

Moving ahead

Music

"Make a joyful noise"

Blur

Once the ice cream truck appeared on the scene everything was a blur.

Impatience

Impatient to get on with their weekend the kids scrambled out of the school.

Pretend

Aha,Monster Thwarting!
Play is every child's right.

Island

Big Kid Island - full of monsters,booby traps,secret passageways and other fun stuff, but beware NO LITTLE KIDS ALLOWED