Not too old after all!

We've had a little "retro" toy-playing around here lately... a delightful reminder to me that although my kids ARE indeed growing up too fast, they're still young children. {hooray!}

Zoe and Lucy each got a baggie full of homemade play-doh from their church teacher today, and you wouldn't believe how excited they were about it. They've been playing with it for almost two hours now.

For reasons unknown, Noah decided two or three days ago to get out his old collection of matchbox cars... which hadn't been played with for years! He put together the Hot Wheels track that he got for his 3rd or 4th birthday (shown behind him in the picture below) and started systematically racing each of his cars to determine the fastest one of the bunch. The girls have been involved too; picking their favorites and cheering on the racecars. I think Noah has been pleased to have the girls playing "boy games" with him for a change!

Now today Noah and Molly are taking the building projects to the next level, getting out the train set Noah got when he was two. While we have gotten rid of several old toys over the years, I'm glad we've hung onto these "classic" toys that the kids have rediscovered this weekend.