Tree house

Our lovely new pool deck is nearing completion, and now it has the added features of a playhouse underneath, and tree access. Chad built an exceptionally cool and funky railing, and then surprised me by adding the funny face door down below. He built that door originally as a safety gate at the top of the backyard steps at our old house. Clara was just a baby then, and Chad made three faces in the door, with C, D, and C for noses. Today, Trevor was thrilled to find that his awesome dad had managed to squeeze in a little face with a T nose.

The kids have plenty of room to hang out under the deck, and it is a fabulous place for imagining you are in some secret cave, a mine shaft, or the galley of a boat. At the moment, though, the tree is their favorite spot. They have an old phone up there for making pretend calls to real people, and they both plan to spend a good deal of the summer just contemplating leaves.
When he is not sitting in a tree, Trevi is rarely sitting. He is quite a daredevil on the bike, and manages to eat pavement on most turns, despite the training wheels. You can tell by the look on his face that he doesn't mind crashing.
If you click to enlarge, you'll see that the logo on the handlebars reads, "Major Damage", which is exactly what Trevi would have inflicted on me if I hadn't jumped out of the way a couple of nanoseconds after this photo was taken.