Friday night I declared it 'Make a tent in your living room' night at our house! I grew up making these tents and for some reason it is just plain fun. So of course I need to pass this love on to Natalie.
Here are a few good things needed to make a successful tent in your house.
clothespins, sheets (both fitted and flat) and a cute little kid like this one to enjoy it!
Daddy wasn't home in time to help us construct the tent so I needed to tap into my inner engineer. I will say this is our second time to make a tent, and I did much better this time around! One chair in the middle was the basis for every sheet I used. This is why fitted sheets are so great! They hook right on the tops of our chairs.
We made sure we ate dinner in our tent. Brian is such a good sport!
Natalie did a little bit of reading in our tent, but the highlight of the tent family fun was snuggling down to watch Tangled! This is the only movie that she will remotely sit still in. She laughs when we laugh, and covers how mouth while bending over like it is the funniest thing in the world. Precious.
We grabbed all the pillows off our bed, and her special lamb pillow and cozied up to our movie. We watched about half of the movie before it was NJ's bedtime. The tent was so much fun we decided to leave it up all day Saturday. She crawled back in it to eat lunch and play on her own. I would call this evening a success and one I will have to remember. Maybe a once a month kind of tradition, who knows!
So fun! We need to add a movie to our tent next time!
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