So yesterday I call hubby from work and he say's "I got a present for you. You can use it at work." and I ask "What is it?" because I hate surprises and he says "It's a box." The normal persons response would be "A box? Gee thanks..." but my response was "YAY! Is it a big one?" "It's huge" says hubby "It's an oven box. I don't even know if you'll be able to get it in car." And now picture me jumping up and down gleefully at the thought of this box to which hubby responds "You're crazy."
Move forward to today when I pry open the back of hubby's work truck at 7:15am in the FREEZING cold and see THE BOX! He wasn't kidding, it's HUGE! GINORMOUS even. I pull it out, drag it across the driveway and manage to just barely get it in my car. I'm a rearview mirror driver so I got a good look at the top of the box all the way to work because I kept forgetting it was there. I drug it inside my classroom at work then told all my co-workers to come see the present hubby got for me! Everyone of course loved it (although probably not quite as much as me)and the kids loved it most of all! They grabbed books and climbed right in. How two years olds know without prompting that a HUGE box is a GREAT place to enjoy a book is beyond me but they're right! I wish I had a huge box to crawl into sometimes.
My kids LOVE boxes, of all shapes and sizes...we have a whole corner of our classroom dedicated to cardboard boxes. One is long and skinny and typically gets turned into a boat, several are average sized diaper boxes which get worn as hats, used as cars or even shoes. One is painted like Lightning McQueen from the movie Cars (courtesy of me thank you very much) although he is torn on the side so he has to remain stationary while the others get pushed and pulled around the room all day. We also have the "pumpkin house" which is an orange box with black stripes, a door and windows. The pumpkin house is used for reading books, hiding from Miss Vesta, spilling tears or playing peek-a-boo with friends. And NOW we have the GINORMOUS box! I can't wait to see all the things they'll use it for!
