Old School Treehouse

My sister Kim recently moved to a new house and the kids and I went out for a visit and a tour of the new digs. As she was showing me one of my niece's closets, I spied the old FAMILY TREEHOUSE that she and I played with as kids!!! Oh, how I loved that treehouse. I must have spent countless hours with it as a kid. "Yeah," said Kim, "I got it from Mom's house, but my kids don't really play with it that much." So I took it out to show to AJ and he was into it! I think all the kids played with it for a while before we left with it in hand. AJ liked it so much that he wanted to play with it on the way home. Here are some pics I took of him with it on his lap. I had to just hold the camera up and click since he sits behind me, but I think I got pretty lucky with these!

Intent concentration is needed to play with the treehouse tipped at such an angle I suppose.

He eventually fell asleep with it still on his lap. :)

As the treehouse has been on our dining room table since it came home with us, many of my friends have come in and exclaimed, "I had that treehouse when I was a kid! Where did you get it?" Alas, I have looked online and have not been able to find it. Maybe that's because things really were made to last back then? Other than that the drop-stairs have gone missing and the rope for the swing must have broken, the whole thing is basically still in tact and working! The treetop still pushes down and locks shut and the button release still works and allows it to pop back open. The little tree-trunk elevator still goes up and down when you crank the sawed-off branch crank, and even the swing is back in action with a little dental floss and some tlc from moi. I have big plans to restore the paper flooring and walls, but I also have big plans to make dinner one of these days, so we'll see how far I get...maybe I'll have it all done for Lizzy to enjoy. Anyway, here's a picture that AJ took of the treehouse when I told him to take pictures of some of his favorite things around the house.

Note the little man (there's also a lady and a dog) standing outside admiring his yard. Maybe he's looking for the doghouse? "Psst, it's in the treehouse, dude! And by the way, mustaches are so 1975!" Oh, maybe that's why he has one...that's when this toy was made! LOL