Roxaboxen

So the great thing about Roxaboxen is how much fun the kids had owning a great project, and using their imaginations.

Main Street

The gang in Kade’s house.

The museum

Speed marker :Slow

Ben was the police officer in the beginning, but then retired and became a shop keeper.

Ben’s motorcycle shop.

Roxaboxen currency (flat rocks and snail shells)

The little brothers chillin’ in their house.

And my favorite, Ben in his home away from home.

So much fun, it makes me think of the make-believe games I used to play in our backyard growing up….

 

Roxaboxen

In school Ben’s teacher read the class a book called Roxaboxen.

It is a charming story of a group of kids that created a little town out of a few rocks and boxes, and a whole lot of imagination.

The kids made main street, and then they each made a house.  They made stores and restaurants, and had a mayor and police man.

Then they played.  They rode stick horses and drove cars (all you needed was a steering wheel of some sort) got speeding tickets, and held wars.

That very day Ben and his friend came home and started building their own Roxaboxen.  Every day for weeks the first thing I heard from Ben in the afternoon was, “can I go outside and play Roxaboxen?”

All I heard about was Roxaboxen this and Roxaboxen that, finally I had to go down the back hill and see what all the fuss was about.  I was impressed.  You will be too……

 

Soccer Season

Wow!  October’s almost over and I haven’t blogged once!   – I spent the first week in the month getting ready for our trip to Great Exuma, Bahama;  the second week was our get-away; third week, recovering from our vacation, and now that the month is nearly over,  I’m finally ready to blog again!

We enjoyed a great soccer season, both Ben and Dan played.  Ben’s team was undefeated!