It's FINALLY complete!

So we finally finished our BIG project!!!
Matt wanted me to post these sort of step-by-step photos of the process.
This was Luke's Christmas present.
Our problem was our old, dangerous, broken fire place.
Now it's nothing but fun (if your under the age of 4)!!!!

It was pretty easy for us to come up with a plan, but took a while to actually carry it out.
Matt cut all the shapes out with a jigsaw.

Matt really wanted to take a picture of me painting.
It took me all day to finish the monkey and croc, but I was SO happy when I was done!

Voila!!
What we have here is a little play center for Luke.
Let me explain what is included:

• The tubes cross in the back so you put the ball in the top left it comes out bottom right (ya get the idea).
• The monkey's belly and the croc's mouth are a bean bag toss.
• The monkey's face is a door that opens up and it's a mirror (this part is Luke's favorite, at this age).
• Alphabet blocks spin and have pictures of the letter (they are crooked for a reason, it gives them character, right?? Actually it was really hard to make them straight).
• The cut out squares, you can put our extra letter blocks in and they drop down and you open the door (on the croc) and they fall out.
  

Even though it may not be the nicest home decor for our living room Luke loves it, it's safer than the broken fire place. Plus, we rarely have people over and when we do they usually have kids with them. Not to mention we will only live here for a year and a half longer.
Yay for us (that we finally finished)!!!!!!