A new rule...

This happened a little while ago and I never posted about it. It's too funny not to share. I had been reading a book called "How to Tuck in a Superhero" that I found on Pinterest and a friend recommened. It's about a woman who has 5 sons and the crazy life they have and the crazy rules she never thought she'd ever have to make. I laughed alot reading it and then I had to laugh at myself, because I had the "I can't believe I had to make that rule" experieince. One day at grandmom's, JD decided he didn't want to put underwear on when he got dressed, so when he got home, he decided he should. When I got home, that's all he was wearing...his underwear...backward. Okay. So later in the evening I saw him taking small toys and things and putting them down the front of his underwear (remember, they're on backward so he's got lots of room). Okay. Then he comes to me in the kitchen and tells me how much he likes collecting things and walks off to the living room and starts removing his "collection." And I'm in the kitchen listening..."I've got a car, and another car, and a bunny, and a block, and a truck and a trash can (from his Trash Pack toys)...and a PIECE OF CHEESE, and..." "What?! Please tell me you don't have cheese in there" I call to him. He comes to the kitchen with a big goofy grin and a mashed up Kraft Single, still in the wrapper...that he had "collected". (I had asked him to put it away earlier after he took out more pieces than he could eat and left it on the coffee table.) So, I told him, "New rule, no collecting food in your underwear!" Really.

Life is never dull.

Ahoy...come aboard Captain JD's pirate ship

While I was putzing around on Pinterest today (yeah, still in the holiday not wanting to do work mode...as is everyone else here!) I decided that I should blog about the "fort" I made for JD. One of my best friends sent him a hippo shaped tent when he was about 2. Well he loved it so much, it was all he'd sleep in. In fact, we took apart his bed and just let him sleep in the tent for along time. There just wasn't enough room for both in his room. When we finally decided it was time for a bed, we got a simple twin bed at Ikea. He kept wanting a tent/fort, but since there was no footboard, just throwing a big sheet over the ends of the bed wasn't going to work. He really likes pirates so I came up with an idea for a fort. I went to JoAnn Fabric and bought something like 6 yards of muslin. I cut it in half so I had two 3 yard pieces and then cut one of those piece in half lengthwise. To sew it together, I put the widest piece in the middle and the thinner ones on the outside, added a rod pocket at the top and finished all the edges. So essentially, I made a big curtain. I then sewed on some pirate patches, made from red and black quilting fabric, so it would look like a repaired sail. My husband put up a wooden curtain rod on brackets close to the ceiling and we hung the sail fort. We just tuck the end under his mattress to make the fort and when he doesn't want it down, we just tuck it behind the headboard and it still makes a little canopy over his head.

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