ain't nothing like card board boxes

back tracking a lil: we spent july 4th with some friends at their new house. they'd just bought themselves a fancy sleep number bed & finn was lucky enough to enjoy the boxes. he loved them so much while we were at their house that when they offered them to us we couldn't refuse.

we spent the next day making his kingdom. three big boxes & two hallways!heather, his favorite ultimate frisbee mom! (she watches him during all of our league games, at the fields for us!)

finn distracting or helping?!
we were pretty hardcore with it, reinforcing everything- duct taping any exposes cardboard edges so zero paper cuts for baby.
he kept giving me kisses & climbing over me... it was pretty cute.
high fiving as he approves of the first hallway.
bryan testing out the second room.... a little tight. but he has put on a lot of weight.
coming out his front door.
aunt melissa informed me that it should be casa de finn. woops. either way- it was intended to demonstrate my point of view on this prop "show me your papers" bullshit.

& this is later in the week... finn doesn't ever watch t.v. but i was letting him watch some sesame street while i was baking a vegetable cake for friends that just had a baby & i thought it was hilarious how zoned in he was. this child rarely sits still, occasionally to read a book- but nothing like this.
i'm having visions of him at school listening attentively to his teacher. i hope.

and now our t.v. is broken. i'm tempted to see how long we can go without one. i've been hearing some buzz around this new movement: get rid of 100 things. bryan & i did some purging this weekend. we both threw out lots of clothes, shoes, kitchen things that we never use like a food processor that's never worked. big brother's & big sister's is picking it up next week if i can be patient enough. it's overwhelming our dinner table area. it feels good. but it's made me want to do more!!! our closets are full of crap. how did we manage to fill this house with sooooo much stuff.

*this is only half of the final load!*

i'm glad i'm doing it now- because when we move maybe it'll be easier. who knows where & when that move will happen, but things are in movement at bryan's work & that will be the final decidor. is that how you spell that? hmm. he's been named acting supervisor until they formally give someone the position. if it's him -we stay. if it's not-we have some thinking to do.

happy thursday!