Playtime

Its fun to see the differences in children's play here... or at least what I think are differences!

For example, instead of playing "house", the kids here play "mummies and daddies".  Instead of "cops and robbers", they play "goodies and baddies".  Ben is always dressing up as a "goodie", all ready to "fight the baddies"!  

Ben is currently into every kind of boy-themed play, including Power Rangers, Batman, Spiderman and knights.  Ben has one buddy who is particulary skilled with a sword, and they love to play knights together.  As you can see from our castle photos, he is more prepared than ever to play a good game of knights!

As the weather warms and playtime moves outside, it will be time to play sports in the garden, including rugby and cricket.  Ben still goes to football classes and enjoys them very much.  Susanna has recently started going to football on some Saturday mornings... unfortunately its mostly boys so she isn't as excited about it as she would be if there were more girls.

We are looking forward to lots of play time in the next two weeks as both kids will be off from school.