Parachute Fort

Do you remember back in elementary school PE when the teacher would bust out the big multi-colored parachute thing and everyone would gather around it and wave it and sit under it and it was gigantic and the most fun thing ever?

Well, my husband, the PE teacher, brought one home yesterday. He tucked the ends of it under random pieces of furniture and then turned on a box fan. This is what happened to my play room. It was actually bursting through every doorway. Keep in mind that the parachute itself is probably bigger than our entire house.

The older kids had such a blast in their new fort (mom's old quilt over the couch and footstool trick is going to forever seem lame after this). When we brought Joshy down the stairs and he saw this thing filling the doorway, he burst into hysterics and didn't stop crying until long after we took the thing down. It was a bit much to behold after a long nap I guess.