Cardboard Train Tunnel

Every once in a while our house becomes a computer hardware warehouse. These boxes are all of the computer equipment for a local lawyer's office. One Fedex delivery dropped off 12 boxes. Thankfully Jeremy was home for that one! So I carefully ask how many of these boxes are going to be opened in my house--knowing that all of the packaging would be left in my house too. The answer: all of them! The boxes and packaging would obviously not fit in Jeremy's little car. Soooo...a Mom must come up with a bright idea. New play equipment!

We currently have a cardboard train stretching through the toy room and into the living room. Aliza said it was not a train, it was a tunnel. Then it was a train tunnel. This morning she wanted me to create a bird with the boxes and tonight she wanted Jeremy to create an airplane. She served her Little People tea in the tunnel and I could hardly tear her away from her play to go to the post office.
Tonight Jeremy had them diving head first through the openings. It was pretty funny to see Aliza's feet sticking up from the hole to alert Jeremy that she wanted to be pulled up through the hole by her feet.

I don't know if I can do this story justice with words, but it was just too ingenious to forget. My Dad stopped by for a few minutes this evening. He was sitting in Jeremy's desk chair holding Josiah between Josiah's dives into the boxes. Josiah alerted Dad that he wanted to dive in and Dad got up to put him in the hole. As soon as Dad got up from his chair Josiah dashed over to the study chair and climbed up--grinning from ear to ear. Dad ticked him and called him "snicklefritz" and then picked Josiah up and sat down. A few seconds later Josiah jumped down and ran over the box seemingly wanting to be dived in, Dad got up and Josiah went running for the chair.... He did that about 5 times. All his idea and it worked perfectly. Apparently he wanted the chair more than the boxes.