Photo Challenge: PLAY

I enjoy reading other blogs. One of the easiest ways is to check out the blogs of those who read this one, but I only know about them through comments. Karen told me about a photo challenge, and I had to check it out. Today, the theme is PLAY, and if I understand how it works, I post some pictures that mean "play" to me.


Of course when I think of play, my children come to mind. I decided to choose from photos I had taken in 2008 just to narrow down my choices. Here are my three favorites photos that symbolize "play":


1. Maddie and Jon PLAYing in the backyard. A pretty, sunny spring day. A yellow dump truck. Happy children.
2. Maddie, Jon, and Ben PLAYing in the toyroom one random afternoon. I PLAYed with a bunch of photos taken over a two minute period. These babies love to PLAY and they sure can be busy.
3. Will PLAYing on the porch in February. He played in a bucket, and then I looked out and found him doing this: dunking his underoos in a bucket and putting them up on a stick to make water drop patterns on the concrete. He later told me "It was such a nice day for a swim, Mama."
Why do the kids come to mind with the word play? My life is mostly about kids now, and children are here to play. That is the only thing they are supposed to do at ages 1 and 4.

Ok, that IS a bit of a stretch -- they are also supposed to sleep . . . so I can play. But, I don't have pictures of me playing, and my new camera won't be here until Monday. But I like to play, too -- playing games with Allen, playing with the kids, playing with my crafts. We got Maddie a dollhouse for her birthday, and I really, really want to play with it; however, there isn't enough room in my closet to get it all out, so I'll have to wait until October when she gets it for her second birthday so I don't have to hide anymore.

Now quit reading and go PLAY!