Sam's Slide

Aimee went and picked out a slide for Sam at ToysRUs and upon trying to get it into the car decided it didn't fit and left it at delayed pickup. I went and got it today with the trailer while I was out at Costco picking up a cool floating inflatable 10 foot island for our camping trip this Summer. Just have to say that the float is really cool since it has a mesh center area that lets water in to cool the 4 seated riders, but will be great for Sam to be able to get in the water without being in the open lake. Hopefully it will be a good idea and if not it wasn't that expensive.

Anywho... I got it the slide of the box and put the support pieces on it and when Sam got up from his nap, he got to play on it until dinner time. He had such a blast. He was quite timid at first and even had a little trouble climbing the stairs since the slide is taller than he is. The first slide down it he turned over and went down on his belly, feet first. The next several times he wanted me to help, which ended up me having my arms outstretched to him from the bottom so he felt like I was going to catch him... he would go down mostly on his own and I would catch him at the bottom.



By the time dinner came he was going up the stairs by himself, sitting down at the top and sliding down on his bottom without needing us at the foot of the slide. He gained some real confidence doing it over and over and over... it was really fun getting to see him enjoy it so much. He did complain about hitting his bottom on the floor after awhile, so Aimee put a blanket at the end to add some padding. Sam approved.