Slidemania!!

We atare the proud new owners of an indoor slide!   Since I bought it on Friday, Nate has spent approximately 1/2 of his waking hours sliding down in excited glee.  The only problem with it is the poor design that results in basically pitching the kid off at the bottom to fall foward and face plant into the ground.  Thus, we have had to resurrect Phil O. The Body Pillow, a friend we haven't seen since our third trimester, to ensure soft landings.  Luckily, Nate thorougly enjoys both the slide and Phil O.

This weekend, Nate also generously decided to relieve me of one of my most detested chores:  emptying the dishwasher.  All I have to do now is remove everything that isn't a spoon, and then Nate handles the rest, from retrieving them from the basket

to carrying them all the way to the silverware drawer.   

Between that, putting the cap back on the milk, and helping me swipe my credit card at the supermarket, I don't know how I ever got along with his help!

Comments

[Bubbie]

Great pictures - can't wait to see all of this activity in person when I visit next month!

[Lauren]

Excellent slide! My parents have one (we, of course, don't have the space) and Anna loves it. Also glad to hear that Nate is pulling his weight in the chores department.

(Btw, am also glad that someone else named the ridiculous but indispensable pregnancy pillow. I called it Mount Pillowmanjaro.)

[Kim]

Ours was just called the "J," because it was in the shape of a . . . J.

The dishwasher emptying is wicked cute.

[Andrea]

Mt. Pillowmanjaro is a good one. And don't let the lack of space scare you away from slidemania: at night, it folds in half and slides right under Nate's crib. I think Daddy would have had a heart attack if I'd bought an unstoreable piece of plastic.

[Emily]

Nate is definitely the coolest kid on the block with that slide!
A word to the wise: I thought it was great when Benjamin started to help me empty the diswasher...until he decided it would be more fun just to climb inside it.