Someway to make it seem more airplaneish

From Halloween

One morning last week Annabel told me that she wanted me to help her build an airplane.

"A paper plane, you mean?" I asked.
"No, a real plane. We can make it out of stuff we have in the garage. And then Gaby and I can fly up to a rainbow and get some colors to paint with."

I looked at her, a bit incredulous.

"Did you see something like that on TV?" I asked.

"No. Can we do it Daddy?"
"Yeah, can we?!" Asks Gaby now suddenly involved as well.
"Well, we can't make a real plane." I say shaking my head.

"Lets go to the garage!" Annabel suggests.
"Yeah!" Gaby seconds the motion.

Now it's about 7:30 in the morning. They need to leave for school in about 10 minutes. "Okay, really quick." I say.

We go to the garage and Annabel immediately grabs Kristin's yoga mat and the old plastic baby wash-basin that we had for when the girls were infants.

"This is the runway!" she says rolling out the yoga mat.
"And we can attach wheels to this, she says pointing to the wash basin."

Now I have to admit to having had this exact same impulse myself when I was a kid. I remember thinking that it should be possible to just throw a plane together out of extra junk. So I did want to make this happen for them even if only slightly. So I am thinking of ways to build wings and attach them to the washbasin to make it seem more airplaneish.

"I'll tell you what." I say "We'll do it this weekend, okay?"

"Yay!" they both readily agree.

Saturday rolls around, and I have to remind them that it's time for the airplane work. I think Gaby had forgotten completely and it was not top of mind for Annabel either. We go outside and I start to explain that first we need to make plans. We have to measure some things and then go to the store.

"No, lets just make it." Annabel says.

"Well you can't just make it" I say. "You need to do some work first, then you can make it. We can probably have it made by tomorrow if we work hard."

"No thanks." Says Annabel lets do something faster.

"Well we can go to walgreens and get some toy planes there or I can make some paper planes."

"Perfect!" they say.

:)