New...To Us

A friend from church who has five daughters has been great at passing down toys that her children have outgrown to Y.  It has really come in handy because we have been able to take many of them to her Nana & Grandpa's house in Canada so that she can have toys to play with while we visit them there.  It's great because we don't have to constantly take toys back and forth.  A few of the items we have kept here though, one is this wooden rocking horse that one of their neighbors made specifically for their daughters.  At first Y was a little afraid of it but now that she has gotten older she loves to jump on the horse and pretend she is riding on it.  She also likes to point out all the features of the horse's face: eyes, mouth, ears, hair, etc.

Well one day at church this Sister asked me if I wanted a Little Tykes slide for Y.  At first I wasn't really sure because we don't really have a yard here in the condo that is specifically ours.  She said that actually they bought it to teach their first daughter to climb stairs because they lived in an apartment and didn't have stairs and that they actually used it completely indoors.  So after considering it for a bit I totally agreed because, well, Y loves to slide! I went to pick it up the next day and just left it in our garage for a few days until I had the time (and motivation) to clean it.  After we got back from her birthday dinner and outing I decided that while B gave her a bath I would just go out and clean it.  It wasn't extremely dirty but being that it was coming inside I wanted to make sure it was extremely clean.  So I diluted Clorox in some water and set at it, after the Clorox wash I did another bath with detergent and water and finally I rinsed it all down with plain water and dried it up.  We had to figure out how to reassemble it while simultaneously realizing that, in my thorough cleaning of it, water ended up inside it and was leaking out on the carpet.  We put a few towels down to catch the water and Y couldn't wait to jump on it and start playing.

She loves that slide and if you really want to be entertained, ask her to send Elmo down the slide!  She thinks it is absolutely hilarious to send her little Elmo's down the slide and to listen to her laugh at it is hysterical.  She has the funniest and cutest laugh...I love her!  She also sends balls and other miscellaneous items down the slide but nothing gets a laugh out of her like Elmo!