keepin him on his toes

Jul 30

Posted by: Rachel in: blog, caleb isaiah, clever toys, crafty, d.i.y., family, just another day in paradise, memories, ramblings, you might be a mom

Every now and then, I like to give hubby a weekend project to keep him on his toes. Nah, I’m just kidding, but my little Saturday morning project turned into an enormous, time consuming, life sucking, entire weekend project. It all started out as a table for the aquaplay set to cut down on the mess. He was soaked and had to be bathed after playing the first night. I couldn’t see us having to give him a bath every time he played with it. So I suggested we use an old kitchen table in the storage building and cut the legs off. After getting a better visual of the size (which was much smaller than I remembered), we decided it needed a piece of plywood on top… Then that the plywood should be cut to the layout of the canal system. After hacking the legs off the old kitchen table, we decided it wasn’t really usable after all! So that will now be our outdoor art table for the super messy stuff (as well as a good place to do sensory play when we get into homeschooling).

Gotta love this guy, he’s so patient with my hairbrained ideas!

Oh well, at least he had help right? (See the shortened table with the legs laying underneath?!)

The handymen at work (I just realized, despite looking pretty lifelike, that is indeed a KIDS Craftsman saw in his hand! Just as an FYI!)

8000 screws later

Oh why must we overdo everything. It weighs approximately 9000 pounds, but at least it is functional

Here’s what I accomplished. Yay me. Luckily I had hubby to remind me of my ABC’s. No kidding…I was standing off to the side where I couldn’t see the letters on the opposite side of the box, basically where this picture was taken from (between the I and the O in the picture). I asked him what letter I was on, as I flipped through the remaining foam pieces. “L” he replied, “so you need M next.” Thanks dear.

If you’re smirking to yourself thinking, ‘what the heck is she gonna do with that hunk of wood in the winter?’ I’ve got that covered too! We painted the top green (and will paint the bottom structure and legs brown). When cold weather arrives and the Aquaplay can’t be left outside, I’ll take it off and paint a road system on the table with parking lots and buildings and stuff! I love doing stuff like that anyway.

Comments

3 Responses to “keepin him on his toes”

    Jen
    July 30th, 2008 7:22 pm

    Very impressive of the hubby! Mine probably would have thrown together something very half-assed, which I would have had to fix!!

    My neighbors have a smaller version of that water play set

    Jen
    July 30th, 2008 7:25 pm

    accidentally hit submit… Meant to say;

    My neighbors have a smaller version of that water play set but it is no where as nice looking. They keep theirs in their front yard and are constantly putting it back together because it falls apart all the time! That one looks nice and sturdy…

    Julie
    July 31st, 2008 6:50 am

    Very, very cool! I love the pictures of Caleb helping!!! I think that playtable is fantastic. :)

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