even more natural play

Last week was a busy week at our house.  It was VBS week, which is a highlight of the summer for my girls, and to add to the excitement, I also kept two of Rachel's friends (twin sisters from Rachel's Girl Scout troop) all day each day so they could go to VBS with their friends (lots of the kids from Rachel's school/our church go there for VBS).  So every morning was VBS and every afternoon was fun with her friends.  So it was a busy week full of fun.

One afternoon after VBS we met some friends for lunch at a park near the VBS church.  They also have one of the Natural Play Areas I wrote about in my last post, so of course, Rachel wanted to check it out.  None of the other girls had ever played in one of the natural play areas before, so they were excited to see what it was all about, too.

Someone got the idea to build a log cabin.  Then they decided to make a table and chairs inside the cabin.  They made six chairs, enough for everyone to have a seat.  I won't post the pic I have of all of them sitting on their chairs, but here's one of Rebecca in the cabin at her seat.....see how hard they worked?  They dragged logs and stumps forever!  

Also adding to the fun this week was an American Girl movie premier.  The new movie, Isabelle, premiered at the movie theater near the American Girl store.  I took my girls, the two girls I was watching, and Rachel's friend, Taylor's mom took her two girls and a girl she was watching....so between us we had seven little girls.  It was a sea of little girls, ages 4-12ish and their moms....  But they give you lots of free American Girl swag, which the girls loved.  Free paper dolls, free craft, free doll t-shirt, free popcorn, and so forth.  They loved it all.  I wish I had a picture, but the one I took didn't really turn out in the dark theater.

What a week!