Maelin's New Toys

One of the reasons we decided to sell our wonderful house in Wash Park was because it was 950 sq feet and had no backyard for Miss MaeMae to run around in. My dream was that she would have a yard with a swing set, sandbox, tricycle, etc. to play with.

Our new house has a great backyard with a covered patio, but we were severely lacking in toys for our little one. We got her a swing that we hooked up to the covered portion of the patio, but that was about it. Since she really enjoys just playing with the dirt and pine cones of our yard, we figured we had till next spring to really furnish the yard properly for her.

We were looking around at different swing sets and sandboxes for her: possibly xmas or bday presents since they are very expensive! We were thinking that we would get her a sandbox for xmas...

Then some friends of friends moved into a huge house and they just happened to have a swing set in their backyard that they weren't going to use: AND a sandbox! Both were in very good (used) condition and they said we just needed to come pick them up and they're ours! So exciting...

We went down last weekend and loaded up the swing set (complete with slide, glider, double swing and weird screwy-thing that you stand on and twirl) and the froggy sandbox (complete with very clean sand!) into Papa Dan's truck and we were on our way! Uncle Chad and Aunt Jess came down from Loveland and along with Uncle Jeff, we all set up the swing set in the backyard and filled up the froggy sandbox.

Maelin is in business!

She LOVES the swing set and the sandbox. Right now, she has a good ole' time sitting in the sandbox and dumping the sand everywhere...she runs right to it and pulls the cover off and jumps in and just grins and giggles. She also loves her swing set. It's a bit big for her but it's in good enough shape for her to grow into it and she loves going down the slide and swinging on the "big girl swings."

We are so lucky to have such good friends that help us take care of our little one! Here are a few pictures of Maelin enjoying her new swing set: as my brother says, we've really turned into the suburban family now!



Our new swing set!



This is Maelin with Aunt Jess enjoying her new swing set right after we had set it up.


Maelin decided she wanted to try out EVERYTHING on her new swing set...she went right down the line and Aunt Jess went with her. :-)




This has nothing to do with her new toys but she sure enjoyed playing in the leaves last weekend while Daddy was raking up 12 big garbage bags of them! That's what you get when you move to a house with established oak trees!