My Favorite Past Time Revisited

Here he is crawling through the "fort" with spoons in hand. One of his new things is to open the silverware drawer and get out some spoons to carry around the house. He then pretends to eat everything in sight! So silly!

One of my favorite things to do when we were little was to build forts out of anything and everything we could find. Whenever our friends, the Grissinger's, would come to visit, we would always build a massive fort. Our forts always had rooms, and you could even stand up in them. They would stay up in the basement for months, and would be crafted out of baby beds, shutters, blankets, sheets, plywood, and whatever was in Mom and Dad's basement. We're talking big time forts, here! I started my freshman year of high school with our best fort in the basement. We loved it, and we built some good ones!

So, we've already begun instilling this into Pax, as Uncle Brooks and Aunt Rochelle built a fort with him when they were watching him at Mimi and Papa's one morning. He loves these, the most simple forts, and thinks it is so fun to just throw a blanket over the gap between the ottoman and the love seat in our living room. I can't wait to build real forts with him! We need to start collecting blankets and things to make it great for Little Man.