Is this not the cutest little house ever?
I looked everywhere for a good play house like this and could not find it. Oh sure tiny little ones that she will outgrow by the end of summer or fancy big ones that require a bazillion batteries. Toys r us had one advertised called Imaginative Sounds...it had motion sensor door bell, phone and kitchen sounds. Seriously that looks to me like it requires very little imagination, the name is very misleading. Chris and I both have fond memories of playing in cardboard boxes. Now this is not a "awww poor kids could not afford real toys" story. I am pretty sure that even if we had a pretty, pretty playhouse we would have still chosen to inhabited the refrigerator boxes. I remember at one point having a whole neighborhood of boxes in our back yard. Each box had windows and doors cut into them (mom always wondered why her scissors were constantly dull) the inside of each box was decorated with "wall paper" (crayon drawings). Chris on the other hand recalls making space ships and spending many a summer day giving Han Solo a run for his money...apparently his space box did the Kessel run in less than eleven parsecs.
But I digress, I ended up putting an add in the paper and got no response. At home church I was sharing my frustration in lack of playhouse when someone speaks up and says "my boys don't play with the one we have want it"? (she would not take a penny for it and her husband delivered it to our back yard the next morning)
SWEET
It my hearts hope that The Girl will know the pleasure of a simple cardboard box but while we live in "condo land" this back yard cottage will do.
Is this not the cutest little house ever?
2 comments:
I was just telling andrew about the goodtimes in the keelans boxes the other day as we stared in awe and confusion at the elaborate playhouses in toy R us. It does seem as if the adults who created them have done all the imagining for the kids. Then we had a laugh at the many angry parents who spent 400$ on a play house to find out the their kids really just wanted to play in the box it came in!!!
I have all of these elaborate dreams of building my son a play house one day... I doubt it will ever happen, or at least be safe for even my cat to play in, but unless I can convince my friend's carpenter husband to do it for me... Daefyd will likely just get a good ol' climbing tree.
Also, my dad once got a giant pile of wood blocks that someone had as scrap and we used to build forts with them. So, I think I have some options. But, do kids even play outside anymore?
That is the ultimate question.
BTW: That play house is super cool, I think Elora will make some sweet forts in there.
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