he sat there on the floor making up stories with these towels as his props.
i will let the pictures tell the story...
who needs expensive toys?
just let these little ones use things around the house and their imagination.
studies show that kids are way too overscheduled and don't have enough free time.
and enough time to be bored....yes bored.
that is when they start to get creative.
when they are forced to make something out of nothing.
when they are forced to make something out of nothing.
they just don't have enough downtime anymore, with nothing planned for them.
it makes me so happy when my kids make up some game or do something together that
has nothing to do with technology.
and no, this doesn't happen all the time.
but it does happen, because they are not rushed from one thing to the next.
with four kids and even just one activity each, life for can get busy for all of us.
we have actually been holding out signing john up for anything so that we are not constantly going.
this downtime is so important for them, and for us too.
as for now, i think he is pretty darn happy -
and the older kids, we'll they had fun rolling andrew up into a burrito the other night.
i'll post those pictures along with that story next week.
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