Ohio father builds wheelchair-accessible snow fort for his special needs children
Gregg Eichhorn from Cincinnati, Ohio, is a father who is always looking for creative ways to make life easier for his nine special needs children. That's why when it started snowing in the area last weekend, 34-year-old Eichhorn and his sister Sarah Brantley spent close to five hours building a wheelchair-accessible snow fort so that two of their wheelchair-bound children, 19-year-old Zahara and 11-year-old Elijah, could enjoy some time having fun outdoors.
Eichhorn along with his wife Katie have adopted nine special needs children, who range in age from 4 to 19-year-old.
Speaking to PEOPLE about his children, he said: "I keep telling everybody, it’s really no big deal. We were already building a snow fort so when we were doing it I said, 'Hey, let’s build it so that Elijah and Zahara, my two kids in wheelchairs, could use it as well'. I said, ‘They’d love to use the snow fort!’ It was all very passive, we just wanted to be able to include the handicapped kids who wouldn’t be able to participate in the building of it."