Lucas wanted tape and some thick paper. He had an idea: “A tent!”

It may have been something Kevin said that spurred Lucas into making it for his favorite stuffed animal, Spider-Monkey; I’m not sure. But before long, he’d used up all the tape and set off for his room.

The “tent” fits well over his alarm clock that sits on the night stand between his and Attie’s beds now. (They had separate bedrooms in the old house, but wanted to share when we moved here.) And there’s plenty of room for Spider-Monkey to sleep underneath it.

No more falling off the bed in the middle of the night!

p.s. That’s not Spider-Monkey in the picture. That’s Lucas’ Loris, which he got at the NC Zoo a couple of years ago. (Confession: We’d never heard of a loris until we came home with it and googled pictures to find out what it might be. They should have had a tag!)

Here’s a picture from a few years ago of Lucas with Spider-Monkey. Kevin and I bought him at a rest area off the New Jersey turnpike on the way home from New York a few years ago for Lucas’ birthday. I used BeFunky.com for the “comic” filter.