Backyard Play Gifts

"Maybe Papi will believe it was a drive-by pitch."

'I would love to play in your tree-house, but I can't climb trees...'

"This isn't exactly what I had in mind when I told you to go outside and play."

Football Fans

"Whenever he shows up everything turns to crap!"

"It only goes forwards and backwards. So, you won't need a GPS."

"First I drink, then I barbecue — that's my secret."

"Go away, he's not done playing Cowboys and Indians yet."

A child stands behind a stand piled high with snowballs and a sign that reads "Hand-crafted snowballs 25¢".

"String ... you mean it doesn't have a remote controller to operate it?"

"Hi-yah!"

"And I'm teaming that burned sausage up with a warm, flat local lager."

'I'm going to drag my sled up and down the sidewalk until the noise drives nature crazy and it snows.'

Snow Devil

'Sometimes, I wonder if Master realizes we are dogs: He always says 'good boy, good boy'...'

"Hang on. Mommy's just checking to see if she's still relevant to the outside world."

"Can Johnny come out and eat?"

"That's Brian Eggleston, de facto leader of the playground intelligentsia."

Toy plane with pilot eject.

"It takes a few days for them to detox from screens."

'It's okay, there's a trampoline under the snow.'

"First snowman?"

"With the current state of the world, it's heartwarming to see kids having good old-fashioned, innocent fun in the snow."

"William Blake said you can see the whole world in a grain of sand, but he doesn't always make a lot of sense."

"I'm doing whatever I feel like doing, before I reach the age of accountability."

Boy swinging on wrecking ball swing: 'Stu had a future in demolitions.'

That's my daughter, Alayna

Stonehenge Sandcastle

"He's only energetic on sunny days."

"Did you check the little patch of grass by the swing set?"

Children playing football.

'I lost a fight with a mud puddle.'

"I don't think you can call two ants a 'bug safari'."

Snowman

Swing