here we are now

Some days the boys are pretty busy, with tennis lessons and riding bikes and swimming with friends and baseball games.
Other days they wake up and look at us like Here we are now, entertain us.
Depending on who has more energy or who has a longer to do list, Andy and I interpret their collective demands a little differently.
Both of us tend to send them outside to play, because imaginative games are born of boredom, especially in the yard. But when they tire of playing lumberjack (or I panic watching them heave axes over their shoulders), when swinging from vines becomes more sibling squabble than synergy, we usually step in. On this day one of us suggested art, and the other architecture.