Yup, He Plays With Sticks

 Ramsey.... LOVES... sticks.  He finds them all over the yard.  He collects them and puts them in his play set tunnel.  If we (or anyone else, to include a dog) take them, he gets very upset.

Every time Eric and I peek out the window and watch Ramsey play with sticks in the yard, we think of [deceased] Comedian  George Carlin's cynical, sarcastic, and funny (!) words from his special "It's Bad For Ya", where Carlin goes into a diatribe about kids, their parents,... and sticks.

Ramsey had been laying under the pile of sticks here. But, of course by the time I got my camera, he was already on his feet and popping twigs off of branches, trying to make the perfect "sword".

The weather was even nicer yesterday, so guess what... yup, rifling through sticks, constructing perfect weaponry!

Excerpt from Carlin's 2008 skit:

George Carlin : I'm talking about today's professional parents, these obsessive diaper sniffers who are overscheduling and overmanaging their children and robbing them of their childhoods.

[applause] 

George Carlin : Even the simple act of playing has been taken away from children, and put on mommy's schedule in the form of "play dates". Something that should be spontaneous and free is now being rigidly planned. When does a kid ever get to sit in the yard with a stick anymore?

[laughter] 

George Carlin : You know? Just sit there with a **** stick. Do today's kids even know what a stick is?

[laughter] 

George Carlin : You sit in the yard with a ***** stick... and you dig a ***** hole. You know?

[applause] 

George Carlin : And you look at the hole, and you look at the stick... and you have a little fun. But kids don't have sticks anymore. I don't think there are any sticks left; I think they've all be recalled because of lead paint!

Well George... our kid... he still plays with sticks!  And rocks.  ;-)    

And, he also has play dates... with the little girls down the road.  So...  ;-)