Carpenter Craze!!!

After weeks and months of listening to the kids beg to come to Wichita, I drove down yesterday to bring the kids up for a week of crazy-Aunt-Kathryn-style fun! We had a giggle-filled car drive and arrived just in time for dinner! Today the kids were a little disappointed that it was cool and cloudy, as they have been also begging to swim at our YMCA pool! We took advantage of the cooler weather (mid 70s) and took a walk to the park and fed the ducks! After dinner we joined Uncle Chris out on the deck, where he is working on rebuilding the deck. The kids wanted to build something and use all the fun tools. It was all their idea, in fact, to build a table with the scrap pieces of wood from the deck. So, with a little bit of help from Uncle Chris and Aunt Kathryn, they put together this table top. We'll secure the legs tomorrow evening and the kids already have big plans to paint the table all kinds of bright colors.

They each got a turn hammering the nails to secure the table top.
Ethan was very particular in his hammering, taking care and precision with each hit; and he did a very good job!
The job always gets done faster when two work together!!

Before they can paint their table, we have to sand off the old deck paint. It's a meticulous job, but someone has to do it. We would have finished up the sanding but the mosquitoes came out to play! So we came inside to play!! I'm sure the rest of our week together will be just as creative, productive and funfilled as today has been!!