Flashback Friday: No Girls Allowed

Flashback Friday's ~ This idea began one day while I was perusing through some of my old posts on a private blog we had set up for friends and family while our son was in foster care.

A lot of really wonderful things happened to our little family while we had our private blog set up, so every now and then, I am going to re-post some of those wonderful memories. I hope you will enjoy looking back at them as much as I do!

"No Girls Allowed" - originally posted 

March 23, 2010

I have been feeling rather crafty lately.  I have been decorating our newly finished basement, making Ian a "book" of different materials with fun textures and colors, and last, but certainly not least...
the "Fort".  What little boy doesn't love forts?

I found this camouflage material on clearance at the fabric store and decided to make my boys a fort.  It is just a simple cover for the table in our family room, but it will be much, much more than simply a scrap of fabric.

In fact, it has already become a fortress - a fortress in which I was informed upon it's inaugural use that "No girls are allowed."  I am allowed to peak in the door however - aren't they sweet?=)

I finished it one afternoon while Ian was napping.  Mike came home just as Ian was waking up, so he hid inside and I went to get Ian.  He thought it was SO cool!  They took a flashlight in, and of course the blankie... (Doesn't Ian look like he is telling his Daddy a ghost story in this picture?  LOVE IT!!)

...they interrogated their first P.O.W.=)...

...and they checked every so often just to make sure that I was watching the fun from a safe distance. 

Good thing Mike never grew up so his baby boy would have a playmate since "no girls are allowed..."