Playground Poachers...

The rain stayed away, so C and I made some outside plans for today. Saturday was big for two reasons.

#1 - Carter finally fit into his Vans from K10 for the first time. This raises his street cred way up. At 17 months, he's already cooler than Pops.

#2 - I might have been an accessory to potential "toddler trespassing" by assisting C in Playground Poaching.

We normally hit our local public park playground. It is okay. It has three slides, a swinging bridge, monkey bars, and located right across the street. It is the "vanilla ice cream" of playgrounds. Still satisfying, but there is a "private Montessori" playground near Super Target that is the "Double Chocolate PB Moose Tracks w/a fudge swirl" of playgrounds. Erin & I have spotted this toddler oasis when we are out running errands, but have never tested its weekend availability. It doesn't seem right that a place this sweet is deserted on a nice day. However, they have these serious 8' fences that don't really say "try one of our 12 slides while we are away please?"

After a swift trip to Target and Lowe's, we had about 1hr to kill before lunch. I thought we'd check it out. Several locked gates and aforementioned fences, but right up front, there it was. Open gate...we are in business. I opened the gate, and C quickly bucked out of my arms and took off immediately. I figure no one should question why we are there. It is a playground, Carter is a kid. If I was 15 and with some of my skater friends, we might have been in trouble, but C was working that place like he owned it.

There are about 5 of these crazy structures, and it makes Obama's swing set look like a #16 seed. Carter spent the next 50 minutes in playground utopia. Playing in a ship, a huge clubhouse, a train, and lots of slides. I had to drive with the windows down home just to keep him from passing out b/f lunch.

Not sure what we can do the rest of the weekend to top this, but we'll see if we can come up with something...

Thanks for reading...