A Wonderful Gift from a Sweet Friend

The other day I got a text from my friend, Torri, asking if Eli would like a Little Tikes play set from her daughter, Sophie. Sophie is in first grade now and isn't using the play set anymore, so they were wanting to give it away to make some room in their backyard. I immediately said "Yes!" I knew that Eli would love anything that he could play, climb, and slide on outside. We went and got it last weekend and brought it to our house. It was late at night when we went to pick it up, so we only made it to the front yard with it because we couldn't see to place it in the backyard. Also, our lawn mower was broken, so the backyard was in desperate need of mowing and we didn't want to set it down only to have to move it again.

Eli got to slide on it a couple times that night before going to bed and he LOVED it. The next morning when we walked outside to go to Mrs. Dara's house, Eli spotted the slide and ran towards it in his pajamas saying, "Shide, shide, shide!" (slide). I quickly ran to get him and told him we'd play on it that afternoon when we got home. Not that he has any concept of time, but it at least distracted him enough to get him in the car to go down to Mrs. Dara's house.

When we got home that afternoon, we changed into our play clothes and Eli got to "shide!" He had a blast. He climbed, slid down the slides, peeped through the windows, went in and out of the play set over and over again, until it was dark. Thank you so much, Sophie, for sharing this toy! You were so SWEET to think of Eli! He's going to love this play set so much!