Tuesday, April 15, 2008

day at the playground

Last week, we had several days of gloriously warm, sunny, springlike weather. Sarah has had a fantastic time playing outdoors with her ball, her sandbox, or just her own two feet, running around. Saturday we headed to a playground in town that was built just last year. The former early childhood teacher in me loves this place. It has all the swings and slides and climbing structures a playground should--and more! It was designed to be for children of all abilities, so there are also ramps leading up to the slides, a clock on the side of one structure that has Braille, etc. Plus, part of the playground is an outdoor classroom, with a garden, a collection of rocks and turtle shells, and a stage! The playground will eventually have stations set up according the Chronicles of Narnia, but that isn't finished yet so I don't know what the vision there is. Should be interesting! Anyway, here are pictures from our day.


Sarah crawling through one of the tunnels to get to the smaller slides...







You didn't think she'd stay at the smaller slides, did you? Here she is having climbed a bit higher...





A cool musical instrument...





Heading up one of the ramps...





Riding on a seesaw with her new found friends. No, she didn't know these girls prior to climbing on the seesaw, but when has that ever stopped Sarah?





Just a swingin'...





Having fun playing the marimba...





This slide is designed with rollers so a wheelchair could go down it..




Being in East Tennessee, the warm weather did not last. (If you don't like the weather, wait ten minutes, and it will change!) Sunday was cold and wet. Yesterday wasn't a whole lot better. Hopefully by the end of the week, we'll be back into spring! :)

Oh, and Sarah continues to be obsessed with Roger Miller. I have listened to his music more in the past week than I think I have in my entire life. It does have an upside though; last night Mr. Miller's songs were able to "soothe the savage beast," so to speak. Sarah was in an absolutely awful mood, and dear old Roger got her out of it!

1 comment:

Tara said...

What a fun playground!! Cute pictures of Sarah too...I'm glad you had some nice weather for her to get out and play in, even for just a few days.

Wanna come visit us? It's 90 degrees today! ;-)