Today was off track fort day at our house. At least one day of Ian’s off track time is spent inside a fort built in the living room…that day was today. We string sheets and blankets from the dining room table which we move into the living room and with the help of a few chairs and the piano bench we create quite the fortress. The kids always haul up the children’s encyclopedias from the basement to hold down the sheets, but we never use them and then they pass the day perusing their favorite sections (of course this means gross bug pictures). They ate lunch in the tent and then moved onto Chutes and Ladders. After the game they ventured out of the tent, but left the game out. When Wesley got up from his nap and saw the game board under the tent he knew he had hit the jackpot…no one ever lets him play (he hogs the spinner and steals everybody’s game piece). He sat down and spun away, marched the little Chutes and Ladder guys, his toy elephant and his camel snack cracker all over the board! Oh, to be two and have ownership over something…because in the eyes of a two year old isn’t everything “mine” anyway.
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