Box Fort Galore!

Last weekend, the cold started settling, and the freezing rain hit hard.  As the lack of sun shown through our windows, the gloomy look on the children's faces gleamed.  What to do on such a horrible day?  Well, good ole' Daddy had the answer!  He suggested we all get together and build ourselves a box fort, complete with locks and possibly a draw bridge.  What better way to spend a rainy cold day at the start of winter?  Building something fun out of cardboard, right?  (Okay, video games and hot chocolate made a close second.)

"Please, Daddy, can I get in the way while you build?"

Yeah, ofcourse, the boy wants to build it all by himself, and by build, I mean make it as difficult as possible to put up the walls, let alone everything else.  All things considered, how could we not let him "help"?  Afterall, it is for the children to play in during cold days throughout the winter. 

"Is it done yet?"

As for little miss impatient, she actually did help.  Our wonderful little duck tape sticker person did a great job at placing the tape so the cardboard held.  Isn't duck tape wonderful?  I'll have to write an entire blog post on that stuff.  As for this little girl, she was estatic when we put the "towers" on top.  Too bad cardboard isn't sturdy enough to build two stories with.

Soon, there appeared one problem.  The monster (our dog) kept breaking into the castle!  We needed a solution, and fast!  Quickly, I was thrown the duck tape to make locks, while the husband made everyone swords for protection.  An innocent german shepard was going to eat us all alive, and even worse, eat our cheetos!  Oh, my! 

"No more monsters getting in!"  -The girl

So, my locks were put into place, and worked rather effectively, I think.  Of course, the bad idea of having our fort complete with locks meant the kids could a) lock eachother out, b) lock their friends out, and c) lock us out.  Oh well, someone had to be the monster/robber/other bad guy, right?

Check out these nifty cardboard swords for protection!  They'll give you cardboard cuts everywhere!  Believe me, those are painful and would keep any sensible person away if they know what's good for them.  Or so we hoped.  Soon, I returned to my puzzle while the kids had fun breaking in their new toy.  Then, the wonderful idea of a draw bridge came up!  I suggested a blue paper mote with drawn alligaters, but that idea didn't stick.  Luckily for the kids, the draw bridge did.

Complete with 550 cord to raise and lower it from the inside (and outside if I felt like it), the drawbridge was complete.  Now, to lock mommy out and keep away those scary monsters who steal cheetos!  Which, by the way, includes mommy now.  sigh.



Next week, or really before it is destroyed, hopefully we make it around to coloring all that cardboard with squiggly crayons and messy paint.  Might as well make it attractive.