Cardboard Imagination

Susie and I were talking today and remembering when Laura was a baby. I remembered when she was small and crying. Dad and mom were each taking care of a baby at night as the twins came after Laura. I walked her around and around the living room until she fell asleep. I'm not sure why she was unhappy, my mind says teeth coming in, but since the twins were born she wouldn't be an infant.....ah memory, you have to write it down in the moment.

Another memory we both had was dressing Laura up. Steven was much more amiable and cuddly, but Laura was so much fun as she was a girl (not that we didn't dress Steven up as a girl....but still). One of our best dress up and play was "walking the plains" in a covered wagon. We dressed up Steven and Laura as the pioneer babies, put a cardboard cover over our red wagon and hauled them around the yard, garden, and pasture. I think back now and consider it amazing we didn't spill those kids out over the ground. Did we sing, Pioneer Children sang as they walked, and walked, and walked? As I can't remember David and Donald in the picture, I'll bet we sent them on ahead to scout out or go hunt for food or Indians. It is really great what an imagination can do with a cardboard box.

No this isn't our wagon, it just looks like it. I got the picture from booost.com on the internet