February 8: Kite Flying Day

Woo!  Another super easy holiday, amirite?  We woke up on February 8, excited to kick the day's butt!  So we went to SEVERAL stores (note the pattern!) looking for kites.  Now that the several months of Christmas had passed and the weather had started to turn down here in Texas, we thought we'd be able to find summary toys in the seasonal aisle.  No, beyond winter, spring, summer and fall there are apparently a bunch of seasons we'd never heard of....

...like proposal season...

...which is apparently a thing.  It culminates with Valentine's day and allows stores to begin selling Valentine's candy way back in January when it would otherwise be WAY TOO EARLY.  It also means that the summer toys are not yet being sold despite several 60+ degree days.  Come on people!  It's outside weather!

Ever industrious, we decided to hit up the Michael's crafts and buy fabric, wood, string and ribbon.  You can see where this is going.

BRILLIANT!

So... here's the thing.  Turns out kites are made with a less... porous fabric.. right?  You know, to trap the air and fly majestically.  So, ours didn't really, what's the word?  Work?  Yeah, that's it.  Work.  It didn't work.

The agony of defeat.

Go us!  So it didn't fly.  So what?  We inadvertently learned a lot about kites.  Justin built one... because, as established in the last entry, I'm pretty darn lazy.  I managed the project, which, in this case means I watched.  And we ran around out backyard like idiots throwing that beautiful monstrosity in the air over and over again.  So, Project Convince the Neighbors We're Insane is going delightfully as planned.

It was tons of stupid stupid fun.  We have every intent of flying kites with Eventual Baby Ynclan (EBY as our as-yet-not-even-conceived child shall be known), but we're gonna Amazon that shit next time.