boys will be boys

I am always amazed at my boy's creativity. Anyone who has boys will know exactly what this is a picture of. A gun. Very simply made, a chopstick and a clothespin. But it does what it is suppose to do - shoot anything and anyone. Somehow just about everything they play with ends up this way.

It started out with Taylor coming home from school with some chopsticks. They were learning how to use them for Chinese Day at school. Since Taylor is quite absorbed in the Harry Potter books right now, this chopstick turned into a wand. Up until this point Taylor had been using unsharpened pencils for wands. And for some reason the eraser did not belong on a wand so I would find unsharpened pencils with the erasers missing all over the house.

Anyone who has several boys also knows that the oldest boy's interests filter down through the rest of them. All of a sudden Bennett and Owen needed chopsticks for wands. They dug some out of my kitchen drawer that I had bought last fall for myself to practice for my trip to China. Now all of them had wands and were running around the house yelling various curses at each other from Harry Potter. And they would all react correctly to the curse that was thrown at them. Taylor is a very good curse teacher. Even Owen got in on the act. And to top it off they all wanted a scar drawn on their forehead, which I happily helped them with.

Then within a few days, one of them discovered a few clothespins in my drawer and all of a sudden the wand was now a gun. And there you have it - the life cycle of a boy's toy.