July 28

When I headed out early this afternoon for a little solo shopping expedition, Isaac and Brady were watching Olympic badminton and trying to figure out how they could make their own ping pong table.

When I got back, I found that they'd made a cardboard "net" and cardboard paddles (using toilet paper rolls and squares of cardboard) and were engaged in a furious ping pong match on our dining room table. (I'm not sure where they found the ping pong ball but they did so there you go.)

I was agog when I first saw them, and then I laughed to myself and told them to carry on. Their never-ending creativity and innovation makes me smile, and is (almost) always a blessing to me.