ACC, part 5: Games and activities

It's impossible to capture all of the activities, games, and creative play that go on when six cousins scheme with each other. 

There will always be reading and more reading. Charlie was snagged by Hannah and Miles to share a book with them. 

 

Auntie Angie read a bedtime story to O, W, and E the night that Westy camped out with his cousins. Well, camped IN...

 

While Vivi explained the rules of Old Maid, Hannah and Gma Jill read a Little Critter book. Hannah and Miles are great readers, and when the adults needed a break, one of them would read, too.

And here is the Queen of Old Maid. Vivi LIVES to play this card game! 

Everyone had a chance to play cards with Vivi! She and Auntie Angie enjoyed a game or two.

Ethan and Vivian played some Chutes and Ladders with Auntie Beesie. We no longer have Candy Land, so this was a substitute.

 

Sorry was a big hit with Hannah and Miles. They especially loved the sound they made when a playing piece slid along one of the colored arrows. You'll have to ask one of them about that. It's not suitable for printing in a family blog. Ha ha! Vivian played, too, when she wasn't trying to convince someone to play Old Maid with her.

The games moved outside much of the time. For sure there will be football and baseball and basketball when the cousins join forces. Owen and Westy lead the way in this pick-up game on the Gustavus campus.

Soccer, or some version of it out in the back yard, was fun, too.

When the craziness moved to Bunker Lane, running or riding bikes around the pond and through the woods was on the cousins' agenda.

Safety should never be taken for granted, so Vivi made sure to wear a protective bubble-blowing helmet. 

Not only were the kids busy on this cousin visit, but so were the monarchs. Ethan and Owen raised several caterpillars who munched through milkweed and formed chrysalises.  Some of them hatched (is that the right word??) while the kids were together. How exciting for everyone to release monarch butterflies!

There is never any down-time when the six cousins are together. They love to play "babies" and "puppies", and there is often performance art. This time Westy did his lumberjack show and Ethan performed "What Does the Fox Say?" in full fox costume. With all the cousins so busy and active, no wonder their parents were exhausted by bedtime!