foam weapons

Burke and I found these foam gems (a sword and an axe) in Target's dollar bin (Adam, obviously, was not with us or we wouldn't have been browsing through the dollar bin... he hates it... but I love it... he might like it more after this find). As I put the foam weaponry in our cart, I told Burke, "You can use these to hit the floor or to hit furniture, but you can't use them to hit people."Fast forward to our arrival at home. Within 15 seconds of us walking in the door, Adam had discovered the foam sword and foam axe in our bounty, tossed the foam sword to Burke, grabbed the foam axe for himself, and the two of them simultaneously started making sword-and-axe fighting sound effects that I can't make (the sound effect ability must be a boys-only thing... Burke seems to have been born with an innate ability to "crash," "bang," "buzz," and "zoom") and jousting in the kitchen.

So much for the "no using these weapons to hit people" rule.

Later I was sitting on the floor of the kitchen holding the foam axe. Burke ran over to me, took the axe from me, handed it to Adam and looked at me like, "What are you thinking, mom?" Point taken, buddy.

As a side note for those of you who have little boys and a Target nearby- it was two dollars well spent.