Planes

The Planes movie came out on DVD Tuesday.  We went to visit Grandma Ely on Wednesday.  I told Paul if he was very well behaved we'd go get the new movie.  He was so we did.  He has been excitedly playing with the toy Dusty Crophopper Keli got him for his birthday ever since.  Instead of buying Joy one, I thought maybe we could make a craft one.  So we found a nice pattern on the internet and we made our own.  

Then, of course, when Paul got home from school he wanted to make his own.  So he did.  And in usual Paul fashion he had to take it to the nth degree.  So we built an aircraft carrier to go with it, complete with a rubber band plane launcher that would really launch his homemade Dusty.  And then he invented a game to go with it.  He built a "girls hideout" out of blocks and made a block "dice." We had to roll the dice and move the aircraft carrier in the direction it pointed.  The object was to move it into the "girls hideout" and destroy it.  It was quite clever and we had fun playing it.  Except, Joy kept trying to destroy it a dozen times and I had to put her in her thinking spot so we could play.