Christmas came early

Thanks to the UPS man for delivering the first great toy of this year's Christmas season: cardboard boxes. I suppose it's a good thing that the boxes on delivery actually contained items that we'd ordered as Christmas gifts, but at least for now, the cargo is secondary to the packaging. This is how Aiden and I spent the majority of our morning after these boxes arrived, and I'm not sure who had more fun.

In Thanksgiving-related news: I am thankful that my child is a boy because it gives me a good excuse to do things (like build large hot-wheels tracks out of cardboard boxes) which, lets be honest, I would want to do anyway.

Backyard Camping

A little while back I thought it'd be fun to set up the tent out in the yard for Aiden to play with. He did like it, although he spent most fof his time running around it and opening and closing the zipper. To each his own.

It was a fun little morning activity and it makes me excited for when he gets a little bit older and we can take our sleeping bags out there, start a fire in the firepit, and do some real backyard camping.