Good bye old swingset

Well, we decided a few weeks ago to upgrade out backyard swingset to a real wooden one.  I tried to get someone in town to buy our blue Little Tikes one, but no one wanted it...so I put it up on Craigs list...which totally freaked me out.  Not that I thought some serial killer was just sitting around waiting for someone to post an ad for a playground so he could come out and get me, but you never know what to expect!  On a whim i put it up for $200.  In a matter of an hour I had two replies back, and in a week it was sold! It just set off with a nice set of grandparents with four grandkids who I know will get good use out of it!
It was a great first experience selling something like that...and we actually made some money back from it.
One thing I didn't expect was the barage of tears from Luke when he saw it driving away.  "Bring it back!!!" he was yelling from the doorway.  He was not appeased by the fact that the new larger one would be here in just 5 days!  I'm sure he'll be excited when the new one arrives!

Here is Olivia on the slide the day I put it together (which I made Brad do with me in the dark while they were still sleeping because I was so excited for them to play with it!)  I will miss it a little since it was so well loved over the years!

Sledding

I admit, I have not taken the kids sledding other than in our backyard...until today.

They had SO much fun. Luke wasn't even a bit apprehensive (shocker).  I even built them a little starting platform and then Brad and I put a little mogul in their run to give them some air.

via thought the mogul was the best thing ever! She was so excited to keep going down the hill. Luke didn't like the bump very much, but we made him go over it anyway!

Cooking in the kitchen

Luke loves to help out in the kitchen (just like daddy), and I am always amazed at how long he will stay on a task. He and Brad made pork dumplings a few weeks ago, and he helped make about 40 of them. He was pretty proud of himself. But, he wouldn't eat any of them...so much for "if they make it, they'll eat it".

Reporter

I always joke that Luke is going to be a reporter one day because he asks a lot of questions of people, but he may be a lawyer because he has a habit of badgering people to death.


Here he is at our favorite museum reporting the exciting sports news (always about the Yankees winning...they win every sport according to him) with his buddy Mallory. He spent about 20 minutes in the booth pretending to read the news...before moving on to the voting machine.



Judging by the amount of voting he did that day, he may become a politician...He voted for his favorite thing to do outside: run, favorite vegetable: peas and favorite animal: walrus. I know two of those are true...I wouldn't trust him about the walrus.