The Box

I do a lot of shopping at Costco.  First of all, I buy all of the snacks for Mark's work.  Engineers need a lot of brain food, like chips and Famous Amos cookies and fruit snacks and Cheez-Its and mixed nuts ... Secondly, Mark and I are the Nursery leaders in our ward so I buy the snacks for Nursery, too.  Thirdly ... my family loves Costco!  Cheese!  Cereal!  Chicken bakes!

You know how they'll give you a big box to put your food in?  One day, I'd emptied the Costco box and brought all of the snacks to Nursery.  I left the box by the coat closet.  I'd planned on recycling it, but before I got around to putting the box away, I heard Carmen drag it out into the middle of the family room.  She immediately started putting all of her stuff in there - her shoes, her sippy cups, a few toys, the shoelace that randomly appeared in our house a few months ago and is now a favorite kitty toy, etc. - then she sat in there and laughed for half an hour.

Big cardboard boxes were my favorite thing to play in as a child.  I guess this one will be sticking around for a while. :)

(She *was* laughing, I promise!  She gets weird when I pull out the camera.)

Here's a picture of her smiling while visiting Daddy at work:

I love that little stinkbug!