The Play Set

My side yard is almost complete!  The concrete is poured and the play set is half up.  That's right our giant Costco play set is taking shape.

Last Saturday, Uncles Marty, Phil, and Eric came over with Grandma and Aunt Hailey to help Mommy and Daddy start to build it.  From the expression on their faces and the fact that Daddy worked on it from 8:30 am until 8:30 pm and we only got to step 30 or something of the 50, this thing is a monster!

Look at all the wood that is still on the ground.  And you don't want to see all the hardware.  We've been allowed to climb up in it but the side where the slide goes is open to the air and so it was only one time.

Hearing Mommy talk about how Saturday went always makes people laugh.  As it turns out, they had to redo step number 4 FOUR times.  They kept getting it wrong.  When Mommy realized the THIRD time, that they had to redo it, she tried to get Uncle Marty and Uncle Eric to leave but they wouldn't.  And then the fourth time resulted in a lot of maniacal and hysterical giggles.  However after stopping for lunch, things went much smoother and Uncle Marty was the real hero and stayed for the full 12 hours.  He helped us push through to step 26!

The big bummer is that Daddy is back in San Francisco this week and can't help work on it.  The other bigger bummer is that Mommy and Daddy realized (after they had staked the playset in) that it actually needs to move over about a foot.  GRRRR!  This means Mommy can't really work on it without Daddy because we don't want to add any more weight on it before we have to slide it.  So it just sits, slightly more than half way done, taunting our neighbor boys.  They keep running over every morning to peek and see if we have put on the slide.  Sorry boys.  That's another 6 hours of work!