What Dads Are For....

Last night, we put the little boys to bed and started working a K'nex Mario Kart race track with Gabe. He got it for Christmas and it is quite a contraption. I honestly thought that in the hour that we had until Gabe's bed time that we'd make major headway or even finish. I couldn't have been more wrong. Even with a bed time extension, we were just getting started when I walked Gabe up to bed. As he was saying goodnight, he hugged his Dad and said "happy building and get some good sleep." Oh that child makes is laugh...

But after getting Gabe tucked in bed, I came back and Chad was still working on it...

And we watched an episode of our show and Chad was still working on it...

I went to bed and read blogs for about an hour and Chad was still working on it...

Apparently he worked until 12:20am and we all woke up to this:

And it was like a Christmas morning surprise!  Everyone was so excited when they woke up, that I barely got them dressed and out the door for church. We have a great Dad in these parts... so grateful for him and his hard work!

(I should mention that these cars have batteries and go really fast by themselves and crash and spin out-- you push button and release levers around the track to create an obstacle course for them to go through-- so naturally little boys thought playing with this was way better than church.... oh geez!)