Monday, December 27, 2010

The Christmas tunnel

And you thought I was finished posting about Christmas? Oh no, my friends. But, seriously, I'm almost finished.


On Christmas Eve Eve, David and his BFF started building a snow tunnel. And Christmas afternoon, Daddy finished it:





Nobody was brave enough to crawl through it, so Daddy volunteered to prove that the engineering was safe and sound:


Except that he didn't fit. He couldn't even get his shoulders inside.

So, like any good civil engineer, he expanded it:



At this point, Mary carefully considered giving it a try:


She carefully inspected the tunnel:


And crawled right in:


But she soon backed out and decreed, "I'm too big!"




Daddy was determined to prove that she was NOT too big. So he crawled in:




And got stuck:



And David had to "help" pull him back out:



So Daddy worked on the tunnel a little more, widening it and raising the ceiling. And then he tried crawling through once more:



Is he stuck again??


No! He made it! Hooray!




So then, after much cajoling, David headed inside:



And he made it through too!


Hooray for being brave!



Not to be outdone, Mary (after we convinced her that she was not too big) took her turn too:



Hooray for Mary!


And then she went back for a few more turns.



That concludes the story of our Christmas tunnel.

Hope you had a white Christmas too!