I Spy

Ezra and Asher love to be outside. On nights that the weather permits it, they love to go out into the front yard after supper and play ball, Frisbee, or just sit on the front porch and watch the cars and people and squirrels. Often, as we sit on the front porch after supper, we play I Spy. "I spy with my little eye something that is..." Ezra sort of gets the game... Asher, not at all.

Ezra always looks around, and you can just see when his eyes lock on the thing he is going to spy. He'll say, "I spy something that is blue and green and white and it's on a shirt." Hmmmm. I look around and try to act perplexed, giving a few guesses, and then all of a sudden I spy the blue, green and white checked shirt that I am wearing. He then will typically follow it up with, "this is going to be a really tricky one." Okay, shoot. He'll look around and again, zone in on the thing he is going to spy. "I spy something big and white and it is the foundation of the new building being built across the street." Hmmm, what could that be?

Asher typically spies the same thing every time. "I spy a fire hydrant." So I look around, point at the tree and ask, "is it that tree in our front yard?" He'll look at the tree and smile and say, "no, it's the fire hydrant. That was a good one, huh mommy?" One of these days both boys will figure out that I'm not really as stupid as I seem to be... but until then, I'll delight in guessing the absurd in order to keep the game going and see the joy in the boy's eyes when they know they've duped me once again.