Our Brand New "Toy"...

At the end of last month Paul's new tool box for work arrived and it was quite the delivery. I should have woken up Riann from her nap so she could have seen the huge truck that brought it over to us. After we got it all unwrapped we had this wonderful box left over and Paul and I decided we should make a "house" for the kids. We had talked a few times about going out and finding a big box somewhere for them to play in, so when this one came with all of his other stuff we decided it was time for them to finally get one. Isn't it great how convenient that worked out?!

We brought it inside a few days later and the kids LOVED it. Colby was the first one to see it and he was in and out of it "yelling" at us in excitement. The picture of Colby in the bottom left corner is of him coming out to tell us how happy he was. When he gets really excited he pushes his arms straight back and jabbers at us in a very quick, husky voice. I absolutely LOVE it!!! Colby just loved going in and out of the house and running from the door to the window to tell us all about what he was doing. I can't wait until this kid actually talks because he already has SOOO much to say, we just don't understand any of it yet.

Riann woke up from her nap a little later than Colby and was very excited when she first saw it too. She instantly became the boss of her new house and we had to remind her a few times it was for both of them. She quickly tried to make a door for the front out of pillows and decorated the top with things from the front room, like our DVD cases and her favorite toys (She was mostly hiding things out of Colby's reach but we'll just say she was decorating... *Wink**Wink*).

Unfortunately we've already had to move it out of the front room because it was just too big for our small house but we're saving it for the summer time when we can pull it in and out of the garage for the kids to play with in the yard. I think they'll love it as a summer fort and hopefully they wont tear it up too much. We don't have a ton of yard toys right now so I think it'll be fun for them to have something like this for now, until we start collecting other things for them to play with. I hope they really enjoy it again when it gets warm outside.