Let's Play!

Aside from roughin' it up on the farm, the kids use their very active imaginations to keep busy.

Papa and Mackenzie playing with "The Littlest Petshop"
There are always enthusiastic participants for a watermelon seed spitting contest. It's still unclear who actually won this one or if there were even actual watermelon seeds being spat.

The trampoline is so much fun. The older kids are so gentle and let Mackenzie sit on their laps while one of " the grown ups" ( as they call us) bounces her. She lovingly refers to the trampoline as " A bounce!"

A trip to Costco provides way more than just endless amounts of bulk goodies. Here, the kids are using the boxes from the trip as drums:

And later, the boxes became a stage!

Later, once everyone went home and things settled down, Mackenzie jumped at the chance to have the stage to herself. She climbed up atop the boxes and sang " Shake! Shake! Shake!" as she jubilantly shook her little hips.