Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Adventures With an Umbrella

 Our new deck needed a new patio table.  And then our new patio table needed a new patio umbrella.



Sawyer had a brilliant idea.


Which was quickly confiscated by Tristan. Older brother's have the power to do this.  Do NOT take your good ideas to them.

They'll let you help, but they almost always take over the implementation of a good idea because they can see so clearly how it should be done.  

Unless Mom intervenes.

Time to see if it works.

And if there's a problem, suddenly the good idea will revert back to being the little brother's idea.

Which will need a quick assessment...

And then Big Brother is back to being the boss and Little Brother is relegated to being the umbrella holder.

But little brothers almost never just hold an umbrella.

Because that's not what they were meant for.

Umbrellas were meant for twirling, and swinging, and poking eyes out and such.

Like so.

But back to the business at hand--

Just try as hard as you can...

And if that doesn't work, MAKE it work--  by trying what didn't work before, a little harder.

Are you getting all this down, Sawyer?

3 comments:

Betsy said...

This is so cute, Missy!
Philip is always thinking of better ways to do something. And not just better than Andrew, but better than me, too!
I think he will be a CEO someday!

Missy said...

It's those Dennis brains shining through.

Betsy said...

Hehe! You're right!


imped - a child who just got one upped by his older brother.
Sawyer, you've just been imped by Tristin.