Our Weekend Project and Solution to Cold Winter Days

We have descovered that our boys have a literal need to climb, jump, and slide. And because it is now going into the cold wintery season there will be a lot fewer days to let them run wild outside and release some energy. So, because they haven't gone outside as much, they have made our living room couches trampolines and jungle gyms. And now with Aiden's birthday around the corner we came up with a wonderful idea! We decided to make them a play gym to jump, climb, slide, and crawl through. With my husband's mad skills and the help of our friends Jackie and Amy, who very generously donated carpet and some wood we were able to make our play gym. (Thank you Amy & Jackie!)

The bottom is a tunnel and they use their little picnic table to climb on top. Where they jump and play with their cars. They also use the slide as a car ramp. It is a little simpler than we originally planned but I think it still works great!

So, there you have it, our weekend project, solution to cold wintery days and Aiden's birthday present. And as you can see the boys love it! It was a long weekend and a lot of hard work because we didn't have enough tools to make it an easy job, but it was worth it!