They Came, They Played, They Entertained - Jacob with Lilly

 

Jacob and the Soldiers 

Jacob brought over a backpack full of tanks, and helicoptors and other vehicles for playing on his little cloth road map.  After laying them all out, he ran back to the kids bedroom returning with a bag of army men and other action figures that I kept back there for boy play.

He pulled out an army man that laid on the ground, and another that looked like he was running, and a third green guy was crouching.

He raised up each little one in the palm of his hand to my eye level for  inspection.

"Hey, these are just like mine!  I am so surprised!"

Okay, the little preschooler is talking bigger, I'm so surprised!

Photo:  True Legends Green Orc conquers Green Army Man, with Jacob

Jacob and My BB Gun

I'm about to get infested with piney squirrels.  Ruger, the cat, the huntress, has gone walkabout.  Last week she caught two and gifted me with them.  Last summer she caught a brown squirrel and ate it.  But since she's gone walkabout, the squirrels are coming in again.  Upon seeing one speedily scuttling under the wood box by the garage I got down my BB gun.  Durn, but I couldn't get the safety off.  I was trying to slide it from S (safety) to F (fire) and really struggling.

Though I thought the two grandkids were playing in the other room, and I was concentrating on the task at hand, Jacob slid in beside me.  Keep in mind he's only 5, a preschooler.  He was curious and "helpful".  

"Does it have ammo?"  (Ammo, what does this little tyke know about ammo???)

"It looks like a pistol?" (Pistol, when has he ever seen a pistol??)

"What if you push it in?"  (Durn, but pushing in worked better than sliding back!)

"That was awesome!"  And off he went.  He'd concluded the matter.

Jacob After Whirlpool Tub Bath

"Your bath is incredible because it has those holes.  It goes th-th-th-thb."

Jacob and Carrom

Telling about the rules of the game of Carrom, I was, that had little green and red rings, a white one as a starter and a black one as the final bonus queen.  On the tabletop wood board with it's red game markings, he was aiming for a green ring.  It was on his right and closer to me.  His hand quickly put the starter ring within inches of his target.

 "Stay behind the red line with your white starter ring," I gently informed him.

Well, that wasn't going to work, I could see the thoughts in his head.

He put the white starter ring behind the red line alright, then he snatched the green ring and put it behind the red line, too, bumped right beside the starter ring!  Shoot!  It went in the pocket!

Jacob, Lilly and the Chute

"I think the laundry chute is hungry," she announced.

They'd spent the night and the next morning spied the opened lid of my laundry chute.   Down go my pajamas, down go the morning oblutions towel and wash rag, and down goes her dirty scullery maid pretend play clothes of yesterday.

She rushes down stairs, "Where's my turtle?"

Turtle?  What's she want with a turtle?

Upstairs she hustles, folllowed by Jacob, with stuffed toy green turtle in hand.

She grins a twinkling silly grin.  "I just like to drop stuff down there, I think it's funny." 

And I think they're funny!