Delayed Gratification
Back during the dark days of winter 2006 I picked up a Ryan’s Room Mega Maze for the girls at Costco. I wrapped it up and put it under the tree for Christmas. On Christmas they joyfully tore off the wrapping paper, climbed on the box for a while and then I put it out in the garage to await the return of the sun to the Pacific Northwest. Fast forward three months…
If you live in marine west coast climate you can’t be too awfully picky about what constitutes an actual ’sunny day’. Around here, today counted; it was 65° (17°C), not raining, and every so often an unfamiliar glowing thing would peek out from behind a cloud. That means it was finally time to play in the yard. Hooray!!
But, what was there for the Cupcakes to do? The toddler play structure we’d gotten for them last summer now looked woefully inadequate. The little red slide offered no thrills to my suddenly Very Big Girls. They dutifully climbed on it, and to make up for the lack of sliding excitement, jumped down to the ground from the highest spot on the toy. Ho hum…Then I remembered the Christmas gift.
Wow! This is heavy!
Papa, put this together for us.
Papa takes direction well.
Uh-oh! What’s this?
Wait, Papa! You forgot something!
We’re in a hurry to play with our new toy.
We’re helping Papa put the tent together. Who needs an instruction sheet?
Papa’s been watching Project Runway again. We can tell.
This is fun!
Maybe a little too much fun.
Isn’t it lovely?
The rain starts again tomorrow, but the next time we have a sunny day we’ll be ready!
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Sandy said,
March 18, 2007 @ 10:27 pm
I laughed out loud at the Project Runway comment. Hee! It looks like you all had a lovely time. :)
Donna said,
March 19, 2007 @ 11:25 am
We got this same exact thing for our girls for Christmas and it took three PhD’s about 45 minutes to put it together and Gwen and Maddy ripped the TeePee apart in only 5 minutes. In the end, we threw away everything except the round tunnel pieces.
I hope your girls are more gentle with their toys than ours our! :)
Donna
Dirk said,
March 19, 2007 @ 3:18 pm
One failed PhD (I have a Masters in Math/CS and stopped working on my PhD after 9 months) - and it took me less than 30 minutes. Ha!