Macgyver lives on...

So every time we go to a garage sale, or one of Haven's friends house and he sees one of those Little Tikes cars, he MUST ride on it. He loves them. We were going to pick up one, but we really don't have a lot of room in our house with all the billion other toys, cars, etc.. so we never really thought it would be a good idea. Yesterday I got to work and the place where i always park is a consignment shop, and every now and then they throw out stuff. We got this kid booster seat there a while back that was the exact replica of the other kid booster seat, so that was cool. But this time BOOM the car was sitting there. Well of course I couldn't pass that one up. FREE is the new awesome in the Cardine home. Look at some of the things jen has scored in the last couple months
. So i brought the car home and while i was cleaning it, I noticed that there was no steering wheel. At first I was just going to leave it like that but the first thing Haven said was of course, "Where da deering wheel". And Maiya sat there trying to grab the invisible wheel. So there kicked in my Macgyver sense. I found and old PS1 controller in my basement, cut up an old curtain rod, and found some electrical tape. I screwed the rod into the controller, cut up some plastic pens to keep the steering mechanism (yes i said mechanism) from being too loose in the hole. and then i put it all together, with some more pens fastened internally so the kids couldn't pull it out. /flex

Not only did the kids love it, they absolutely loved it! Haven proceeded to make us laugh with is impressions. Imagine the famous line "Feeling Lucky Punk" by Dirty Harry being said by a 2 year old, and replace it with "Wanna DRIVE?!?!??!". I was rolling. Anyway, it was a fun night in the the Cardine Household.