Thursday, August 06, 2009

Children are all foreigners.


From last weekend, you can see a still hairy Henry, with an increasingly scrappy Ezra, both enjoying the mess that they have made of the lounge room.

Here, they are re-enacting the Second Punic War, with Henry taking the role of Hannibal, and Ezra the role of Scipio (that would be Scipio Africanus).

It did not result in a cleaner house.

16 comments:

Priyanka Khot said...

Oh so cute...

I had once given a toddler, living in my neighbourhood a packet of colour pencils. Their walls were never the same. :D I so have this strong urge to send a couple of packs to your place right now.

yamini said...

You should do that Priyanka, at an earliest :-)

Thank You Kris for putting up such wonderful photographs of the boys. Each one of them is a gem, really.

Sarah said...

They are very lovely!
Seems babies are from another planet or even another world! innocent but shrewd!!

Sue said...

What sweet babies! Enjoy! They grow up too fast!

Roddy said...

I at first thought a cyclone had been through. I then read the post. Marvelous how destructive children can be. Good thing parents can put things right.

Kris said...

Priyanka, Ezra has been drawing on the tiles in the kitchen.

Kris said...

Yamini, they're set for pencils, thank you.

Kris said...

Sarah, VERY shrewd.

Kris said...

Sue, it is a cruel truth.

Kris said...

Roddy, they are a cyclone and tsunami all rolled into one.

Leif Hagen said...

Your living room seems clean in comparison! Three "darling" daughters - I'm blessed!

Kris said...

Leif, it is the sticky fingers on the carpet that most troubles me.

lizziviggi said...

What beautiful boys! If you lived closer, though, I could send my girls over and they'd show you what a REAL mess looks like!

books,coffee,etc.... said...

Hi! Kris,
When your sons play...they look like they "hold no bar, but I think all children play in the same manner. (especially, little boys)
By the way, who pick-up after your sons? Mum?!? (Jen) or you?!?

Take care!
DeeDee ;-D

Kris said...

Lizziviggi, Ez has taken to rubbing food into the carpet.

Kris said...

DeeDee, we all spend much of our day picking up.

Henry isn't bad at picking up really. He just also happens to be good at making a mess.