The Little Things

So, funny thing about the Pacific Northwest--air conditioning isn't a standard home feature. We discovered this our first summer out here when it became hot enough to warrant turning on the a/c and...there's no a/c. LOL! So when it gets ridiculously, 100-degree hot as it does every now and then, we go out to eat for dinner. We did so not long ago and the restaurant we went to gave us kid coloring pages (not unusual). That were gender-oriented (unusual):




Oh but they get better on their reverse side.


Word searches:




The "boys" page had a maze ("get to the treasure"), a "one of these things is not like the other" puzzler (of pirate ships), and a connect the dot of a parrot. The "girls" had a maze ("get the shoe to the shopping bag"), a "one of these things..." (purses), and a word scramble:



So when you're all grown up, you can get--or give--cards like this*:


(Says: "Hmmm...I'm not sure what the heck it is. ...And you say you've seen mom pushing it around?")

* (Sorry for the poor quality on this one, I took it at the store with my phone)