The Jonas children love when something is being built, because construction means that there are lots of piles. Dirt piles, rock piles, concrete piles –  they don’t care, as long as they’re allowed to climb them.

And slide down them.

(I’m just glad that they each do their own laundry – the Youngest Person Rule strikes again.)

We don’t have any pictures of them playing tag on the piles, but it happened all the time – we had two or three dirt piles next to each other when they dug the basement of the house, and the kids would race up one, down the other side, up another, jump the relatively short distance between that one and the next, and run back down to do it again. It was even more fun when they convinced some of their friends to join them.

The kids are bummed that construction is finished and we don’t currently have any piles for them to play on.  I’m sure that sooner or later, we’ll have another project going, and we’ll get more pictures of them playing on dirt piles!