Armor of the Gods

[JohnnyEgo]

My wife is a wonderful parent. She more or less raises our kids as a single parent for 75% of the year, so I can be focused on a job that requires massive travel and provides zero work-life balance. She also works a full time job and is the Den Master of our son's Cub Scout group, and does all these things with far more grace then I could if the situation were reversed. On the parenting scale, she's an 11 out of 10, and I am usually a 5 at best. With one exception.

My dear wife was one of those obnoxious perfect students who got straight As, won attendance awards, was a national merit scholar, and turned in all assignments and homework well in advance of deadline. My son, on the other hand, will casually announce at Sunday dinner that he as a major project due Monday morning. My wife simply cannot fathom how someone could wait until the absolute last minute and even think of throwing something together. Fortunately, I've lived the majority of my life this way, so when these moments happen, I can say "I got this."

You need a full costume for your report on Ares, the Greek God of War, by tomorrow morning? I've got this.

Three IDPA cardboard targets:

http://www.johnnyego.com/photography/vincent/2018/ares/aresgear01.JPG

http://www.johnnyego.com/photography/vincent/2018/ares/aresgear02.JPG

Some hot glue:

http://www.johnnyego.com/photography/vincent/2018/ares/aresgear03.JPG

An old bike helmet:

http://www.johnnyego.com/photography/vincent/2018/ares/aresgear04.JPG

A tupperware cake taker lid and a box of aluminum foil, and I give you armor of the gods that Vulcan would look upon with approval:

http://www.johnnyego.com/photography/vincent/2018/ares/aresgear05.JPG


Once again, Chaos Dad swoops in at the last moment and steals the parenting glory! I told my son that as an added bonus, the helmet will keep the principal from stealing his thoughts.

[roberth]

Kewl

[NFATrustGuy]

Your son is a lucky kid. Hopefully, he'll take a little from each of his parents and wind up being a fantastically well-rounded adult.

Don't sell yourself short. My tendencies are more inline with your wife and I can tell you that I could have *never* come up with the idea to create the costume as you did. Now... if it were drawn to scale with a materials list and 3 pages of instructions... I could've assembled that costume in no more than a day!

Keep up the good work, dad.

[MrAK]

Awesome job, looks like you had fun

[CS1983]

Man, based on all these ad hoc projects, I think you need to go as Hephaestus for "Bring your dad to school day".

[thedave1164]

It doesn't take a village, it takes a mom and a dad.

Great job dad!

[sigmanx]

That's awesome!!

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[Irving]

Dad to the rescue again.

I can do anything. It just takes 5 times longer than it should. If our kid pulled the same thing, I would have just held her back a year so I'd have time.

[Fentonite]

A “5”on the parenting scale?!? I call BS. All the projects and fun stuff you post about that you do for your boy, you’re a friggin rockstar of a dad. Ain’t no denyin’ it.

[CS1983]

A “5”on the parenting scale?!? I call BS. All the projects and fun stuff you post about that you do for your boy, you’re a friggin rockstar of a dad. Ain’t no denyin’ it.

+1; the pokemon store/battle story had me rolling, too.

[JohnnyEgo]

I appreciate the compliments, but it is easy to be Party Time Fun Dad when you're only home for 80 days a year. It's much harder to be the day-to-day parent who has to enforce the rules.

I had a Pokemon battle against my son yesterday. The $5 I gave the nerds to select the appropriate cards for his deck really paid off. He beat me in about 10 minutes flat. At one point, he had some creature with eleventy-billion hit points and an attack that killed each one of my small herd of fire ponies in a single hit. We had four battles in an hour, and there hasn't been a more lopsided string of defeats since the Germans invaded Poland in WWII.
http://www.johnnyego.com/dump/vices03.JPG

[Irving]

Did you guys pass the cigars and drinks back and forth so you'd get a taste of each? ;)

[JohnnyEgo]

Nah, didn't want to get sick, so we each had our own bottle. Knob Creek is for Daddies.
Also, I always battle small animals to death or unconsciousness better when I've had a few.

[clodhopper]

I am a bit confused here. If it was for school, was the costume project supposed to be constructed by the kid? By "swooping in and saving the day", are you just doing your kid's homework for him?

Maybe it is just too many years of my kid's dioramas/projects being judged against classmate's which were obviously done by the parents.

[JohnnyEgo]

I suppose I am a parent of my times.
I'm not willing to let my son, Burn-y McStitches, anywhere near a razor or a heat gun yet.
I also did all the saw and drill work on his Pinewood Derby car, too.

[WETWRKS]

I love the fact that shooting targets are being used to make armor and weapons for a school project.

[SideShow Bob]

Can you do one of those costumes in a 44R with elastic for the waist ? ;)

[Duman]

Can you do one of those costumes in a 44R with elastic for the waist ? ;)

HAHAHA!![ROFL1]

[Bailey Guns]

Alright, mister. Hand over that bottle of Buffalo Trace right this instant.

[TheGrey]

Okay, that was some excellent thinking-outside-of-the-box costuming you whipped up for him. Good job!