Poor Little Hellers...

The tools, Tape, scissors, crayons, Gak ( for helping our bums stick to the seat) Measuring tape.

The rules: "No touching the plane with sticking hands","No bad words", No standing up", Be quiet when Joe is sleeping", No asking a lot of questions"




These are the mechanics!

Yesterday as we were getting ready for church Ya ya had a great Idea, Her and Jack were going to make an Airplane. Not just make a pretend one but a "real" one. All morning they planned out what it would look like, They wrote up the rules. talked about all the places they would go, Yucipa- Ca, Utah, Washington D.C, and Disneyland. They were so excited because now they could see all their family when ever they wanted. They wouldn't talk about any thing else.

Now If I can share something about my Oldest child....... She struggles with a lack of imagination. In fact it's almost as if it is just missing altogether. I have tried various things to get it to come out (I have a LARGE one, and love to pretend) I have rarely seen her do anything which is creative. Even her school art work is predictable. Its all beautiful and well done, but her imagination doesn't stretch very far.

So I was thrilled that they were planning on this and having so much fun along the way. Well my children happen to have a great dad who told them after church was over he would help them make the plane, Which he did. They spent well over an hour getting supplies cutting and taping boxes. But as the process wore on Mike and I began to give each other nervous glances because it occurred to us that our children were not pretending, they wanted this plane to fly. we weren't totally sure though, and we didn't want to kill the fun so he kept working on it with them. All through dinner the talk continued.

The first sign of trouble was when we told them we couldn't take the plane outside, and they said " how will we get it into the sky?". The next was when Olivia cried because with out wheels, how would it get off the ground? And finally I had two children sitting in my lap crying because Captain Olivia realized her plane would never take flight. They were devastated. Seriously. So after a lot of talks were were able to take an imaginary flight that lasted about ten minutes and then for the next hour and a half I told them how planes were made, what they were made of and explained to them " No, our oven won't get hot enough to melt down the t.v, screwdrivers and other metal stuff to make a plane frame, it's not made for that." amid other things.
Anyway it was quite a night. here are a few pictures during the "pretend" flying. They put on a brave face for the camera. =)