Perhaps We Didn't Properly Explain the Concept of the Fort

Jeff and I recently had to replace our ancient dishwasher (seen here)

with the kind that you can put soap into, press a magical button, and you get the idea.

So we decided to make a fort with the leftover box - complete with a "No Girls Allowed" sign - thinking The Kid would enjoy playing inside it.

But it turns out that he actually prefers to use it as a parking garage for our yoga ball, and instead, he would rather play on top of it, using it as leverage to whack his bed with a bat,

or, of course, to climb into his bed

or to gain some extra height for jumping to the ground.

What? That isn't what your children do with a fort?