N is a man who enjoys looking on Facebook, but rarely, if ever, puts anything out there. He knows that Pinterest exists and that I spend about 20 minutes before bed each night checking it out. That's his extent of interaction with Pinterest.
Or so I thought.
Last week he said to me, "I saw this really cool way to make jet packs out of 2-liter soda bottles. We need to make this happen."
Because I had pinned this little kid-friendly craft to my Pinterest page I knew exactly what he was talking about. He downed some Mt. Dew for the craft, shopped for spray paint and tissue paper and let Zoe pick out the yarn for straps.
Honestly, I've never seen him this excited to make a crafty thing. He loves doing the Pinewood Derby cars for AWANA, but this is something totally outside his previous foray into crafty things. I'm not gonna lie, my heart just about wept from tears of joy. With all the years of going to super hero movies, learning to play Halo on XBox, trying to understand World of Warcraft, etc. and now he's initiating crafting. It's almost like the little parts of life came together to make things right in the world!
Not to mention that a certain 5-year old was beyond excited to have a jet pack. Even if she didn't understand how soda bottles were going to transform.
Zoe and I went swimming with some friends and when we came back there was a lovely patch of metallic gray on the lawn. Clear evidence that a certain daddy was totally excited to have a jet pack and save the world.
When Zoe realized it was time to become a super hero, they couldn't make those jet packs fast enough. They did pose to show me how tough they are:
Zoe loves her so much that the other day she was talking about going somewhere and this was her comments:
Could I take a plane? No! Could I take a bicycle? No! I'll have to use my jet pack.
She didn't seem the least bit upset that, as her third option, is was the only mode of transportation up for the job.
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