Fairy Houses

At some point last week, the girls became enthralled with fairy houses.  I'm not sure where it came from, but they literally spent hours over the weekend building fairy houses.  I casually pointed out to Lee that it would be cool if we put something in/near the fairy houses to make them think that fairies were actually living in them and about a 1/2 hour after I put them to bed, I noticed him busy in the backyard.  When I went to check on what he was doing, I found him leaving all sorts of little treasures around their fairy houses - shells, black-eyed susans, miniature vegetables from the garden, glass beads, etc.  When the girls found the treasures the next day (Lee was not home at the time), they were beyond excited; I could barely get them to calm down.  As soon as Lee returned, they dragged him to the backyard to show him; they showed our neighbors; and they showed neighborhood kids that happened to walk by the house.  They also spent the rest of day putting out flowers and grass clippings for the fairies, just in case they happened to return that night.  And wouldn't you know it, they did, leaving pink pixie dust (chalk) all over the bark of the tree, more shells, and vines tied around the tree.  My kids have the greatest dad!

The shells are from the fairies, the flower petals from the girls.