But what about the two adults who could totally enjoy a fort now, Diego? Annie probably had a whole month to go before she'd nix that idea on the basis of not wanting to try to navigate a cardboard fort while in her second trimester.

"We'll have to put them up good and high, in case the basement floods," Annie noted thoughtfully, idly playing with the flaps of one box. It would be a real shame to save all this cardboard for future kid projects and instead just end up with a mildew factory.