Pillow Forts
Greeting to everyone.
Last weekend was Rebecca's Reserve Weekend for September. That, as always, means Bachelor Weekend for Dad and Xavier!
These past few weeks, Xavier has been playing Hot Wheels on the couch in Middle Earth, driving his cars up and down the back and arms of the couch. Saturday night started out the same way, until...
Xavier did not like a pillow lying in his way. He tried moving it, but it proved too cumbersome without letting go of one of his two Hot Wheels. That's when Dad stepped up.
Dad moved the offending pillow to lay across the gap between the couch and the coffee table. That drew Xavier's interest, enough for him to put down the Hot Wheels and climb down the couch to check out the space under the cushion.
He giggled. We added more pillows, creating a cave. Thrilled with the construction, Xavier ran into the other room and returned with a blanket and pillow. The fort/cave was a perfect nesting place!
Xavier also discovered he could "pop up" through the pillow roof and yell "Arrrr!" That, of course, brought a collapse to the flimsy pillow rooftop.
We spend much of Saturday night and Sunday morning improving our fort designs. We found that using a bed sheet or blanket, we could make really large, if not short, forts. Xavier had a time running in and out and being chased back in to his forts.
Now, we have a fort in Middle Earth most of the time. Sometimes it is in tact, other times not so much (Xavier discovered he likes jumping down from above onto the pillow roofs).