This summer Isabella started saying stuff like "ah maaaan, why do I have to do everything around here." Patently untrue! But until this summer she never had to do anything.
One of her new duties included playing with Luke. All the time. I don't imagine it was too onerous, since he's up for anything. Which reminds me Isabella also started saying stuff like, "There is no fighting in this Game" and "Girls don't like to fight all the time" and "I won't play with you if we have to fight again."
Luke, of course, agreed to all of Isabella's terms and still managed to introduce some conflict requiring him to beat up on her. He's a wily animal.
Here's a picture of them with their spy gear for some game where they could transmorph into animals to defeat the environmentally unfriendly badguy. I'll post a list of his dastardly deeds as soon as I fact check my journal.
Isabella suggested she draw a spy watch on my skin so I could have fun too. I declined the honour and made them some gear out of that sticky foam paper stuff. Which was more fun to make than to use- a polite way of saying of no use to them at all.
I wish I had taken a picture of the adult size dragon she drew for Luke- so they could go on a quest and rescue the princess. It was pretty cool. She did a wonderful job keeping him entertained for eight weeks. Totally worth listening to statements like, "This is the most boring summer ever." and "I thought you said we would start having fun by now, but it's still not fun and school's almost started." Clearly her coolness in mitigated by her vitriol*.
*please note that I when I attempted to manage expectations for the summer I said things like, "It's going to be a boring summer" and "We're not going to do anything fun for at least six weeks."
