The Other House Thanks To Miele
Yes, it seemed to be the right thing to do: build my son his first house out of the cardboard box that our new dishwasher came in. It was the perfect size for my son’s little abode.
The box had been sitting under the pergola in the backyard for the last couple of weeks and it was only today that I decided to bring it in and do the cubby thing. My efforts were fairly make-shift, figured hubby would do the more technical stuff later. We tipped the box sideways, invited Teddy and Mr Giraffe, brought in some plasticware, a flute, and an old blue bedsheet. We had ourselves a little housewarming party – if I may call it that.
Gotta say, I’ve never done the role-playing thing with my son before and I think he was a little fascinated by it all. As I interacted with the stuffed guests, my son was kind of looking at me as to say, “you expect me to believe all of this?”. It really was hilarious. I’m hoping that I will find him hosting his own tea party one day – I’ll probably faint from how cute a sight that would be.
We then decided to invite Arky the dog (our real dog – not a toy!), and things were okay for a while there. No doubt we were cosy, but we were happy. My son even fed him some “food” from the plasticware. (I couldn’t stop laughing cause he was mimicking the way I had been interacting with Teddy and Mr Giraffe.) However, Arky soon tried to eat Teddy and that’s when things started to get out of hand. While the dog was eating one of the guests, my son did a mini chuck and Arky thought that would be something better to eat, and so I had to evict him before things got totally gross. Arky was banished from the house, the spew got cleaned up, Teddy recovered, and we all decided it was best to give the new house a break.
Later on that day, the house got tipped the right way up, and my dear hubby cut out some windows and a nice big door. He also lined the base of the house with some wood (that originally came with the box) to make it all sturdier. I’m thinking that I’d like to paint the house a nice vibrant colour at some point, too. We’re in renovation world at the moment (having just bought our new house a couple months ago) and so I think some cubby window furnishings are going to be necessary, too. Hehe.
