Subbuteo

As Sam loves playing soccer, I thought it would be fun to pull out a game that my parents have their house.  My brother played it as a child and my mom played it with her own brother as a child.

I retrieved it from the attic, literally dusted it off, repaired some broken plastic pieces with Gorilla glue, while my mom ironed the felt pitch so that it was smooth.  By the time it was ready to play, both the girls were waking up from naps. We read the rules and Sam started to play anyway and when Tessa arrived, she spent a long, patient time playing with him.

He wanted to take the game home, but we told him it had to stay there.  On the way home he told me he was going to make one at home.
"Sure, that's a great idea," I agreed. 

The next day I came back from running errands and it was very quiet.  "Where's Sam?" I asked Chris.
"Upstairs making a Subbuteo game," he answered.
When I went to check, sure enough, he had made a Subbuteo pitch, on his curtain. The tension curtain rod had been knocked down the day before during a playdate, so it was convenient and about the right size.  I could understand the appeal.
Then I realized he had made the players by Gorilla gluing his American football figurines to wooden checkers.  So now the one checker set in the house that was complete, now has football players glued to it. The soccer ball? "Borrowed" from Vivian's soccer Barbie.

 I decided to start a bin in the basement of materials that we can use for projects.  It won't include things like household decor.

I did ask what he was going to use for a curtain on that window now, and he said, "the Subbuteo board, it's okay, I'll have a soccer curtain."

"So, everytime you want to play you'll take it down?" I asked.

"Oh. I didn't think of that," he answered. "Hmm..."