throw, jump and duck

In two weeks I will have been parenting a boy (and three more) for 14 years. I wish after 14 years I could say I understood them better.....There are plenty of things I do understand about boys: I understand that boys are always hungry. They are always full of energy. They always love a good body noise action and/or joke. They love super heroes and movies with explosions in them, etc.

However one of the things that is most bewildering to me about boys is their love of throwing things AT each other.

A favorite game around here is called: Jump on the tramp together while the person on the ground throws a football as hard as they possibly can at you! (You try to jump out of it's way.) If you get tagged you go on the ground and throw the football.

A few weeks ago my boys, along with a cousin and a neighbor played this game for hours. (Can you see the red football?)

(Yes, the tramp is down to the bare bones, the net was so ripped we took it down. And since these pix, we took down all the padding around the perimeter too. Apparently the life span for all soft parts on a tramp is about 18 months.)

One thing I know for sure is that, if you have boys, a tramp and a ball will make everyone happy.