The Kids Surprise, Part 1
There was a lot going on the next week, so after consultation with the Grandparents, we decided to try a handoff.
This turned out to be pretty easy, as Grandmother met us at the Cullman exit Crackerbarrel. Neither kid knew anything about it, and their faces when they saw her was priceless. Mary was all smiles, and William was literally trying to rip himself out of the car seat to get to her.
William was funny, as immediately after getting Grandma, he holds his hands up and to the side, and with a quizical look, “Papa?”
Papa was still at home, as his treatments haven’t left him with much energy. Thankfully they will be over soon.
We had figured that this would reduce the amount of time the kids were in the car, and give them some time with the Grandparents. They just don’t seem to get enough of that anyways! Next week was the Airshow in Huntsville, so we’d return for that. In the meantime, we had our own plans!
And no, it’s not what you think! (or us for that matter).
We bought the Kids a playfort. That was Monday Lunchtime. I’ll now show you the following week. It’s completely wrong than an entire week compresses to 30 seconds. It looks best if you press the expand icon next to the Vimeo logo. That will show the clip in 720p High def.
Playhouse Construction from Greg Nicholson on Vimeo.
Rockwalls and Upside down mounting beams SUCK.
We spent practically every available moment building this thing. Both came home at lunch, and we worked from 5 till after ten most nights to get this done before the kids returned. Jeff was quite happy at first, when on Wed, it started to storm. She actually thought I might stop and we could go eat dinner at the local Mexican place. HA! There were parts that could be constructed in the Garage. She didn’t speak very much to me that night.
I don’t think the kids missed us at all, although they did ask once if we thought about them. Oh, I assured them, they never wandered from our minds.
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June 30th, 2008 at 5:48 am
Yes, Weds night was the rock wall which Greg assembled and de-sembled like 4 times. The fourth was when we finally gave up and put it on the play fort. The last two boards went on and the stupid thing was still crooked! Majorly! I went in to fix something for dinner while Greg took rearranged the boards to hide it with tiny gaps. We definitely should have gone for margaritas.