We played a lot of fun games with Sparrow while she was here. One of our favorites was a game called dogs and balloons. Jack joined in with this one and great fun was had by all. The way you play dogs and balloons is this- you find some balloons and blow them up. Dogs stand around barking at the balloons while they are blown up and then dogs chase balloons when you let go of them and they stream around the room making high pitched balloon noises. Or dogs chase and jump up to catch punching balloons as children try to bobble them back and forth. Or dogs chase balloons you blow up and tie off and throw up in the air. Dogs and balloons ends usually with all of the balloons punctured by dogs' teeth and with children crying over the loss of balloons. Children swear they will never play dogs and balloons again and dogs continue looking doggedly at the bicycle pump you used to blow up the balloons. I did not, unfortunately, get any pictures of dogs and balloons. If you are curious about how dogs and balloons looks, you can look at the picture of our dog Jack looking at the water gun in one of the photos from the plastics roundup day. Just imagine Samuel holding a balloon instead of a water gun and imagine Jack (or any dog) looking just as intently at the balloon. Add some barking. There you have dogs and balloons.
Sparrow took dogs and balloons a bit further than we are used to. She continued puncturing things that looked like balloons for many days after the actual day of dogs and balloons. Unfortunately, we lost several unintended balloons as well as our globe ball and our giant exercise ball. Thankfully, I saved the hippety hop. Samuel made me put it in the garage until she left, which was probably wise.
Here is Sparrow napping on the baby dolls. She will lay down to rest just about anywhere. I love how dogs really know how to relax!
Here is Sparrow looking fancy!
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