Opa recently downloaded an origami app for the iPad. Bentley started coming home with paper airplanes from church. I pulled out a Klutz book of planes & paper that I picked up for free at a garage sale a couple years back.
What do all these have to do with each other? It's not a concrete link, but put them all together and you get two little boys obsessed with paper airplanes and flying them. They fly them both in and outside. Inside we fly them through rooms, around corners, from the top of the staircase, bouncing off ceilings... ! We've rescued them from plants and the tall chandelier in the entry way. :)
They fly them on the driveway and over the neighbors roof and over fences into yards with dogs (Opa went on a mission over to the next street to retrieve!). They fly them at the playground and they go far and high. They fly them into trees. They love some wind to see how far they'll go.
Where do they get these beauties that fly? They've talked Daddy into creating a few, he's a bigger fan of flying them - he tells me folding paper is not his specialty. This is where Opa and the origami app that "rekindled" an interest in paper folding comes in. Opa comes home for lunch and is often convinced to create new masterpieces. If not at lunch they give him a few minutes after he's walked in the door from work (maybe 2? maybe 3 minutes?!) and then show him new paper/new models they desire!
Luckily for them I found them not one, not two, but THREE new paper airplane "kits" at a garage sale today. The obsession can continue, for now! It is fun to see how excited they get with this new pass time. :)
For the truly dedicated of our blog viewers, here is a video (aka slide show!) of their recent trip to the playground to fly airplanes!
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