My boys love to be together. Where one is, you will find the other. If one moves to another part of the house, the other follows. If one is playing with a toy, the other wants it. And takes it. If one is drumming on the jembe, the other starts drumming too. If one starts clapping at the table, the other does the same. You get the picture. Dinner at our house is a comedy routine, though often the adults are left wondering what was sooooooooooo funny--but the boys sure know something is hilarious and have laughing attacks.
I just started reading a book called The Creative Family which is reminding me to take time just to observe the creativeness of my kids. We were born to be creative, whether it's through imagination or play or art or sports. Somewhere along the way, other things (read: ego, making money, the search for success, laundry, bills, etc;) start to crowd out the ways in which we are creative, leaving us lacking an outlet. The book mentioned that somehow having small children tends to intensify the need to be creative because we observe such creative beings all day long. It said that often new moms start a new creative venture when their children are young in order to capture their creativity. Ah, my life does make sense (at least according to this author).
Ashen just started imagination play that we can recognize. He's calling his rounded bread crusts "boats" and sailing them across the dining room table during dinner, saying that they are going through waves. He is making up a lot of his own songs. Yesterday morning he was singing "Mice in the moonlight" to a beautiful tune. Hmmm...I have no idea where that came from--I didn't even know he knew what moonlight was. Yesterday he and Grandma Ann built a "house" out of a card table draped with a quilt and he played in it with Torin throughout the day. Imagination play was one of my fondest childhood memories (along with art projects and playing outside--which were often imagination play at their finest).
I leave you with some pictures from this morning. One of Torin's favorite activities is banging on the windows (and biting on the sill...). Today Ashen decided to join in :) The next group of photos is the boys just hanging together...hermanos.
I just started reading a book called The Creative Family which is reminding me to take time just to observe the creativeness of my kids. We were born to be creative, whether it's through imagination or play or art or sports. Somewhere along the way, other things (read: ego, making money, the search for success, laundry, bills, etc;) start to crowd out the ways in which we are creative, leaving us lacking an outlet. The book mentioned that somehow having small children tends to intensify the need to be creative because we observe such creative beings all day long. It said that often new moms start a new creative venture when their children are young in order to capture their creativity. Ah, my life does make sense (at least according to this author).
Ashen just started imagination play that we can recognize. He's calling his rounded bread crusts "boats" and sailing them across the dining room table during dinner, saying that they are going through waves. He is making up a lot of his own songs. Yesterday morning he was singing "Mice in the moonlight" to a beautiful tune. Hmmm...I have no idea where that came from--I didn't even know he knew what moonlight was. Yesterday he and Grandma Ann built a "house" out of a card table draped with a quilt and he played in it with Torin throughout the day. Imagination play was one of my fondest childhood memories (along with art projects and playing outside--which were often imagination play at their finest).
I leave you with some pictures from this morning. One of Torin's favorite activities is banging on the windows (and biting on the sill...). Today Ashen decided to join in :) The next group of photos is the boys just hanging together...hermanos.
2 comments:
Beautiful!!
-H
It is so cool they have each other AND that you are able to stand back and enjoy their creativity. Love, love them and you!
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