how to annoy boys…and introduce them to their cousin

Do you want to know how get 4 and 6 year old boys worked up?

Well, let me share how I do it.  First let the boys spend a good hour building a fort for the “good guys” – complete with a dropping floor that leads to jail for the “bad guys”. Once they finish and leave the room to go and find their cowboy hats and swords, you go to work. As fast as you can add pink blocks to the top. I also recommend adding little white picket fences and flowers around the perimeter of the lookout tower. Finally, round up all the single ladies and set them all over the top. These pictures don’t show it, but I also gave each gal a weapon and a coffee cup…so they didn’t fall asleep defending the tower.

Here is the fun part. When the boys return they will have looks of shock and panic on their faces. When they ask what you did, simply tell them, “The girls defeated the guys and took over control of the tower.” When they ask where their LegoMen are tell them, “They fell threw the floor and are in jail.”

They will quickly find their guys and remove all the pink and flowers…a little annoyed with you, but I promise it is worth it. Funny stuff.

Big Brother was very proud of himself after he removed all traces of pink & girls from the tower.

His sword is always in his back. I’m going to miss it when he grows out of this phase.

This is such a perfect picture of summer and boyhood to me. I really, really, really like this photo of him.

We took crazy to see their new cousin…they came bearing these and these. I am thinking she is going to like having these boys as her cousins.

She kills me. I probably drive her parents crazy with how much I rub her cheek next to mine. My do I love her.

And the newness wore off and they went their ways…

Is it redneck to leave lights on your Sycamore tree all year long?

Because I leave my Christmas lights on my sycamore tree all year long and I know all the words to every Brad Paisley song….

(here’s to all my sisters out there keeping it country…only about 10 you have any clue what I just wrote about)

That last photo is also a peek at Monday’s post….hmmmmmmmmm