Feeding the Dinosaurs

Here we are, feeding the dinosaurs! Last year, Eric started calling it this in order to make it a little more fun for the boys. Of course, the big brown lawn bags are the T-Rexes and Triceratops. They love to eat leaves, pine needles, and azalea trimmings...depending on what time of the year it is. It was the perfect day for this...but we are only 1/2 done. Lots of azaleas to go! After a bit, the boys got "tired" (whatever!) and started complaining and asking why they have to work. It turned into a neat teaching session...I told them work makes us appreciate what we have been given. Eric later brought some scripture into the session, saying that they honor us as parents when they help out and they are also working for the Lord in everything that they do. Still, I think they were glad when it was over. .

This is Eli under the lawn bag. He and Cade figured out that the best way for them to "undo" the bags was this method: