Swinging the Days Away

With part of our tax refund, Meron was determined that we would buy Benjamin a swingset. I mentioned last time the hoops we had to go through to get it, but we did. Papa Dick from church, along with a friend of his, came by to put it together a few weeks ago, knowing that that kind of stuff is not quite in my sweet spot. They showed up about 2 in the afternoon. They didn't get it finished until 7:30 that evening. Yeah, it's that involved.


As you can see, it's a long one. From left to right in your picture, a slide, a two-person bench swing, what was supposed to be pull-up rings but we instead put the baby swing that'd been on the big tree in the backyard since Benjamin was big enough to be in it, two regular swings, a "standing" swing and another two-person swing. He's got room to have friends over, though he's only had one over so far. We'll have to have some sort of kid get-together out here before it gets terribly hot.

Anyway, it's been loads of fun for the kids. Benjamin gets a little frustrated because, save the slide, there isn't much in the setup that he can do by himself. But mom and Sarah go out with him often and I try to after work as well.

He has had a lot of fun with it, though, and Sarah has enjoyed it also. It's a great way for both of them to stay entertained during an afternoon.


Of course, swinging can take a lot out of you when you are shy of your first year.

I think we'll be getting our money's worth out of this swingset, probably just in this summer, not to mention summers to come!

Since this is so picture-intensive, I'll do another post with some other goings-on.