The Starlight Kitchen Moves Outside

YaYa and The Banana brought the play dishes outside and began making mud pies, mud soup and all sorts of pretend food creations from some dirt in a few unused flower pots, a bit of sand from the sandbox, along with weeds, “bananas” from the caragana bushes, and some dead flower blossoms.  One thing led to another and the next thing I knew they had disappeared from the back yard.  I found them a few minutes later next to the street where they had set up a roadside stand and were wearing uniform aprons.  They played all afternoon.  You should have seen the looks on the faces of a few people out walking their dogs or jogging around the neighborhood who stopped, thinking the girls had an actual lemonade stand open for  business.  It took a bit of explaining on my part to get them to realize the pretend element involved.

The prices were a bit steep for mud, but our very good natured neighbor across the street was out weeding her garden and came over to purchase a cup of tea and a banana split and paid with pretend, invisible currency, which the girls thought was terrific.