My Playground!

Greetings from Massachusetts! As you can tell from all the twitter posts, we arrived about 8:30 Sunday night. The drive with Papa and Gram took a bit longer than expected thanks to a bit of traffic in New Jersey and just before the Tappan Zee Bridge and then the torrential rain in CT. Five minutes away in Suffield, CT we could barely see the road it was pouring so hard. However, our girl was as good as gold for the ENTIRE 14 hour trip. I were amazed, surely she would lose it at some point and declare that she wanted to get out. But no, she happily slept and played with Gram. What a little traveler.

So, you're probably wondering how the bit playset build went. Well, let's just that the 4 hour timeframe given on the box was a bit...off. By about 16 hours. Ted and my dad started Tuesday and Wednesday nights. They continued Thursday night with the help of Ted's Dad. The Papa's got to it bright and earlier on Friday with Ted joining after work. They all finished Saturday morning.Katherine waited very patiently for her "playground" to be finished. However once it was done and we let her loose, there was no holding her back:

My Dad said seeing that run made it all worth it. Here are the three builders with their girl:

Katherine played on her playground for at least an hour before lunch. Unfortunately storms moved in at lunchtime and stayed for the rest of the day. Since we left early the next morning for Massachusetts, she won't be able to play on it again until Sunday (not that she isn't having a blast at Papa and Gram's house!). There are many more pictures to display but they'll have to wait for a future album. I've been remiss in sending out albums lately, I'm working on switching over to Shutterfly where I can have a password protected site linked directly to the blog instead of the periodic email albums. So give a few more weeks and I should have something up with the pictures of this summer.