Funny Little Things...

I took my kids to Ikea earlier this week because, duh, it's January and the weather kind of blows outside and the air is literally poisonous and the sledding hills have become ice slicks and what doesn't brighten your day more than "Kea Juice" and those darling little lamb shaped marshmallows that only the Swedes would dream up?

Any whootie... We had exactly one thing on our list in addition to our snacks.... four legs to a little desk we bought so it would be just enough taller that Acers could not climb upon it to consequently fall off and earn a goose egg.  Wow.  Is this totally riveting yet?

Here is the point.  FINALLY.

The legs came packaged in twos.  And my kiddos imaginations are busting at the seams right now.  And suddenly, those two-pack desk legs became binoculars.  And I literally just burst out laughing as my little men mimicked their Daddy-o and scoured the horizon for "big deers" and "uge elk". 

 Of course I sent proof to Papa Bear so his heart could double in size and palpitate nearly out of his chest with pride.  Because really, he earned that.  He was the one that scouted the mountainsides with each of them this fall on their first "real hunt".

These boys are starting to really "play" and imagine and dream up big dreams.  And I devour it like I'm in the Hunger Games.  Because, it slays me.  Their funny little stories and games and exclamations just kill me dead.

Like today, they have already found a popcorn that looks like an airplane and eaten it up like a monster.  And now they're outside mowing the lawn aka trudging through the new mounds of snow as if our very lives depend upon it because I guess shoveling is just SO yesterday?

Also, random side note.  It is worth documenting that we had our very first ingested penny around here. Old Acers done ate some cold hard cash.  I knew he was priceless.

Wow, kids so cool they crap money?

You're jealous.  I know.