More First Playground Fun

When we first arrived, Sadie wandered around, checking things out, refusing so much as any hints of help by repeatedly saying “I do.”

Not “me do,” as my niece famously insisted to my mother about dressing herself when she was two.  No, for Sadie it’s no talking at all except when things slip out, but with the correct pronoun or usage when it happens.  Here she is, checking things out and getting close to using the actual equipment:

Here Sadie demonstrates the only proper way to reach the top of the slide:

Yep, the proper and efficient way is to climb up the slide itself.  She used the big steps.  She tried using the little steps closer to the slide, after watching another kid use them.  She wouldn’t take my advice to use them; only witnessing a peer.  Same with being reticent about going through the cage-like metal tube until she watched another girl go through.

She went down the little slide once, then it was big slide all the way.  Eventually when the right combination of other little kids going over there but not as many people over all being there happened, she made a break for the big kid equipment and used the even bigger slide.  However, it was in heavy use by others and she freaked because we stopped her from climbing up the slide and effectively monopolizing it.

Here she is, going down the big slide on the little kid side of the playground:

Finally, Valerie does not want to be little, and insists she can play on the equipment too, not merely swing or be held or sit in the stroller.  Sheesh.  We let her hang out on this two-tier platform like truncated steps, handy for adults to sit or to access the tubes.  She climbed up a step and considered but though better of going into the mesh tube.

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