Verzani Playland

We have lived in our house for a year and a half, this summer. Last summer, we kept busy exploring the parks in our city and visiting friends. Our backyard is HUGE, but it was plain and boring. You can only kick a ball from fence to fence so many times before it loses it's appeal... So this year, we went all out. Thanks to some help, we were able to get an amazing, huge, sturdy, FUN playset for our backyard! 

When we first told Cadee about it, she was a little disappointed. Thinking it would be little and lame. Then, as we began to piece it together, she got more and more excited. She's at a tough age where she's getting too old and too big for alot of things. She was so happy that this playset could be something for her too! She really bursted with excitement when we set up the trampoline!

Our intent this year was to draw the girls' friends to our home. To facilitate and house the play dates and relationships. To help them build good friendships and to learn to be good friends. It's really difficult to do that if they aren't here with us. And in that hope, our Verzani Playland was born.

Drake does not go down the slide. In the picture below- he went down with Cadee and has gone down with me maybe once. But he much prefers to give his sisters a good shove and watch them fly off the end! (As pictured above) It is a FAST slide! I even tumbled off the end when I went down and laid there laughing for awhile. Drake was very concerned! The next time I tried to go down, he told me "no" and pulled me away from the slide. So cute. 

The girls LOVE having their friends knocking on the door all the time to come play. (And we love it too!) It is exactly what we hoped this playset would do: draw the friends over and get the girls outside and active! These girls have never slept so good in their lives!
Drakey loves to invite me to come play with him. He says "siiide" to go outside, then he asks me to "jumm??" on the trampoline, go "up" in the playset with him, to "knock" and come "in" to the fort part below, run and kick the "ball" with him. We are having a blast in our Verzani Playland- making memories!