Due to continued inclement weather this week, we have been stuck indoors searching for new ways to entertain ourselves.
For
Oliver, this has meant increased craftiness. Here is a chronicle of his crafts for this week:
Monday: wooden airplane model which he earned the money for and bought himself
Tuesday: 2-year-old Gingerbread house kit which he found in the pantry
Wednesday: a break in the weather provided the perfect opportunity to do some major destruction to the aforementioned gingerbread house (note the onlooking friends munching on the remains)
Thursday: a monster truck built out of blocks - advanced building skills at work
Friday: spray painting using a home-made DC logo stencil (Brenden helped with this project)
Saturday: some serious fort-building
Brenden has made 2 additional batches of cookies and built this roller-coaster
June has experimented with wardrobe ensembles and I've given up trying to teach her what matches and what doesn't. (These changes pictured were actually over the course of one day.)
Needless to say, I am feeling quite stir crazy.
Many of you know my dad. He can be described by many words -- intelligent, hard working, dedicated, honest, loyal, caring, diplomatic, wise, spiritual, driven, dependable, strong. New sons-in-law or interns or employees might also describe him as intimidating or scary. One describing word that is not thrown around too often about him, however, is handy. He is not necessarily known for his DIY home improvement or maintenance projects. Sure he was good for changing light bulbs and once he did actually build some shelves in the garage. But when I dropped a ring down the bathroom sink, roto rooter was quickly called to extract it from the trap.
(we've never had a nudist child before)
