That's right! Shane's big boy swingset is up and running! Grandpa and Uncle Jay gave Daddy a hand on Sunday and Mommy helped, too, once Grandma and Aunt Kate came over to occupy the little guy.
There were some frustrating moments to say the least, but you kind of expect that when you have 85 individual pieces of wood that get put together with a bag of screws the size of a large cereal box!
However, in the end, when Shane took his first ride down his new slide - it was all worth it! He let out one great big "weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee" and smiled, and giggled, and clapped!
It really is the small things in life . . .
Some "before" pictures. The, above mentioned, 85 pieces of wood!
All the plastic "play" pieces and the metal plates. Even the slide came in 3 pieces and had to be assembled!
The boys studying the instruction manual while sorting through all of the hundreds of screws that would be used!
This is how Shane occupied himself during the day . . .
Eating lunch with Aunt Kate
The manual said you would need one adult with one adult "helper" in order to put this together. There were many times when it took 4 (or more) of us to do one task!
"Daddy, I don't think this is level . . . "
"And these washers don't taste very good either . . " (this is when Shane went down for his nap!)
Helping out the big boys!
His first ride down the slide!
Hanging out in his new fort!
The is the best "after" picture we have for the moment. All the swings, gliders have been put on. There is a tarp that goes over the top of the fort/slide area that we didn't get a chance to put up yet (but will this weeked). To the left of the slide is the rock wall and the monkey bars and underneath the "fort" is an area for sandbox, that we'll use for playing with geeeeeeeeeeeeeees (trucks!)
All in all, Shane is thrilled with set (and so are we) and at the end of the day it really was very easy to assemble, just time consuming.We'll be sure to post more pictures of him enjoying his new toy!
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