We have fun around here

Creativity.

It's one of the things you have to have living over here. In order to have fun, we have to create our fun.  With three kids under the age of 3 we've had to get creative and keep things fresh and not boring.  

So here's how we've been creative in having fun!

Gavin's school held a literacy week and one of the days was dress up like a character from a fairy tale book.  Here he's dressed as Prince Charming.  We used what we had at home since there's not a costume store around here and we didn't have time to order and ship something.  Instead, we turned his superhero cape inside out, pinned up his cowboy hat and I borrowed a feather from a neighbor's table decoration and voila!  He even took a small plastic knife with him that the blade slides into the handle when it's pushed down.  He loved his outfit and kept telling us he was superhero on the bottom and prince charming on top!  I tried teaching him how to bow and talk with an accent, but that didn't work.  I also showed him how to wave his cape around. which he did a few times.  It was precious!  

Another way we have fun is letting the kids run through our sprinklers.  Gavin's friend, Devin was playing at our house one day after school and the boys were outside when all of a sudden the sprinklers started spraying.  They asked me if they could run through them, we hurried and took their shoes off, then it took the boys about 5 minutes to decide that they really wanted to run through them then they took off.  Miles had no reservations or hesitations about running through the sprinklers until he felt how cold they were and he took off running to Delia.  

I baked a cake the other day and quickly found myself surrounded by all three kids so I decided to get the two boys involved.  They stirred bowls with their own spatulas and helped shake sugar bags and mixed cake mix while it was still in its box.  They were such big helpers I put some cake batter on their spatulas and let them lick it clean!  Now, every time the mixer comes out Miles finds the stool and stays by my side waiting for something to taste.  

Last Friday we hosted our "Weekly Meeting" and everyone stayed for lunch.  It was a beautiful day outside so a majority of the kids migrated to our back yard to play with the little ones. Before we knew it, Brooks and all his buddies started a game of dodge ball.  Then they got involved and it became kids versus all the older guys.  It was hilarious and so fun to watch everyone dodging balls and chasing after one another.  This lasted a good 30 minutes!  

Miles got to play with his buddy, Aden, our friends little boy who was born a week after Miles here in Saudi.  They laughed with each other, chased each other, played together, and had a lot of fun. They have very similar personalities so they get a long great!  

Okay, so Miles probably didn't think this was fun, but I needed 10 minutes to finish cooking breakfast and he was all over the place so I put him in the walker (we took it out of a closet the night before for our friends little girl to use while she was at our house).  He was so confused on why he was being contained that he didn't even try walking.

Gavin likes building things and found some time when Miles wasn't around to actually make something without it getting knocked over.  He was pretty proud of himself for getting them to stand up!

After dinner we had some hang out time. The boys just wanted to chill together.  What one does, the other does! Always!