All upside down

Peter has a habit right now of enjoying life to the full through turning our house upside down. The most regular places are his bedroom (with a little or sometimes a lot of help from all of the interesting things he finds in the storeroom), and the living room, although now that the weather is starting to not get quite so cold, and he wants to be outside much of the time, the shed and garden are also places that are great for experimentation and making things just the way he likes them. The living room just the way he likes it ALWAYS involves pulling all four cushions off our one sofa and either laying them out as crash mats for doing super jumps and dives onto, piling them up high to scramble over assault course style, or making houses tents and any other imaginable thing out of them. The other children don't tend to mind in the least, unless some of us are trying to use the space for something else, like sitting on the chairs to read (Rachel can get pretty upset when she is sat on that brown sofa and Peter gets behind the cushion and tries to encourage her off with a little collapsing and pushing! He often says he doesn't want to have our devotional in the living room (sometimes it's sat around the dining table), and it is normally because that means he's not free to create some sort of chaos, I mean imaginative scene, in there.

Here they all are on one of the days when he and Rebekah (often his side-kick) had created a little house with a tunnel to go through to get in and out. Or rather out, as he had great fun climbing over the arm of the chair to get inside then diving through the tunnel on exit. Everyone thought it was a great idea. :o)



Another occasion when they build a sort or rabbit warren, complete with various living areas, cupboards for storing food, and cubby holes.



Rachel happily sporting one area.



Peter soon had her out of there as he wanted to go and eat his stash of grapes in there that he had raided from the fridge, as he does.



Sarah caught happily playing the piano.



Rachel doing her beloved piano practise and Hannah typing something up onto the computer.



Then another afternoon shortly after the other pictures, where several new homes were created (this time by all), many imainative stories created and acted out and a lot of fun had by all (Samuel included, who suddenly had a whole lot more things to stand holding onto and to peer into to see what was going on inside).