This totally deserves a post, so here goes!
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The Friday before Lily's birthday party Neil had a day off and asked me what he could do to help to get things ready for the party. Since Neil is the artist in the family I said, "How about some butterfly decorations?" I was thinking of, you know, paper butterflies hanging from the ceiling, window stickers, and the like.
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But later that day Neil took Finn to the park and they came back with a load of green willow twigs. Neil asked me for a kid's backpack he could borrow (it wouldn't get ruined), and went and got one of our old curtains from the rag bag in the basement. Then brought the willow twigs into the (just cleaned) house, and started cutting, shaping, bending, tying, and generally making quite a mess. Meanwhile I went grocery shopping, prepared dinner, made Lily's cake and cupcakes, and watched in fascination. Hours later, Finn was in bed already and Lily was going to join him soon, Neil was still working with his twigs. I could tell the "butterfly decorations" were going to be quite a bit different than I had imagined, but you gotta let a man do what he's gotta do, right!?
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I went to the pool for a late night swim, and laughed in the car half the way there (didn't want to laugh where Neil would hear it). Those wings were going to be huge!
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When I came back they were finished, and Neil showed me how well they worked. I don't think I had laughed so hard in months. Neil jumped up and down and they actually flapped quite nicely. He did say they "might be a tad big for Lily."
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So, at the party all the kids got to try them out, and they loved them! The smaller ones (Lily and Hannah) will have to grow into them though. :)
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And - Neil and Finn did make some paper butterflies for the party on Saturday morning.
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