Playing With Water Prints

'I don't know why you waste your time with that watering can. The hose is much quicker.'

Future garbage truck driver.

Upper class child with toy cruise ship.

Lego Haircut

"First snowman?"

'Sharon's into genetic engineering!'

'I told you we should have done the balloon toss.'

'I'm just using this while my monster truck is in the shop.'

'I lost a fight with a mud puddle.'

Teddy bear being taken to hospital.

'I understand you have nothing to do, York.'

"Mom: Look what I made!"

Children's Imagination

Dollphins

"Can we get a bigger pool to accommodate all my floats?"

'Mom! -- Spot's skinny-dipping again!'

'Now then you two, you can't both be Australia - one of you has to be England!'

'I can change! I swear!'

'Not without your helmet, you're not!'

"I can skip my bath. On the way home I jumped in all the puddles."

"Well, you said your glasses needed cleaning!"

A rainbow umbrella

'I won't bother to bath Mum, we're playing again tomorrow!'

'I was six before I realized there were things you could do with Play Dough aside from eating it.'

"He lives in a block of flats"

"You'll get your sandbox back as soon as Daddy has practiced a few bunker shots!"

'We think he has a future in politics.'

"Simon, I'm not really interested in your juvenilia."

"It's right here in the brochure: 'Be sure to tip your fishing guide.'"

"I'll wear any kind of dirt, but I prefer a rich loam with lots of humus."

'Ooops. Wonder if I can claim El Nino caused a surge in water pressure?'

Children playing around a water pump

"I warned you about playing at the tar pits."

'I'm not making a mess, Mom -- I'm becoming one with the Earth!'

'I'm not making a mess, Mom - I'm becoming one with the Earth!'