Hunter's Early Birthday Present

We have been wanting to get Hunter a play set for a while now. We have been debating on getting him a plastic little tikes play set or a big wooden one that he can grow with. My parents said they would go in half with us so we decided to do the wooden one. We had no idea what we were getting ourselves into. I did the research (which explains why it was so difficult) and Kyle did the measurements to make sure it would fit in our back yard. We decided to buy one from Toys-R-Us.

When it comes to assembly I use "we" loosely. Kyle did all the work, I encouraged him and oooed and awwed over his handy workmanship in the shade!

Here is what it looked like when we got it out of the box

Yikes- Look at all of those parts, oh and they were not labeled at all. You had to go throughout the manual and label all the little pieces of wood, screws, bolts, washers etc...

Hunter is such a great "helper." He loves to help his daddy

Progress after day 1 (he actually had more than this done, he also put together the whole swing set side, but I did not get a picture of that)

After working all day on Saturday (From 9-4:00) we were done! So 2 full days of putting together a play set, not so bad. I am proud to say there was no fighting and Kyle exercised lots of patience while putting it together. The directions were terrible and there were some times he had to take pieces a part and do it over again. I would have thrown the drill thingy down and cried. But he persevered and completed the job. It looks fantastic and Hunter loves it!



Thank you Daddy!!!!