Park

Jake has been asking for "a playground in my backyard, like Katie's" for Christmas. Katie lives back east and has a backyard the size of our entire block. It's kind of set Dave and I into a tizzy and after discussing maybe removing our dying peach tree and measuring every "playground" available at toys r us, we decided its just not possible to fit any kind of swingset into our tiny back "yard." So today I took Jake to the park to remind him of how we can easily walk to our playground. On the way home after a fun-filled couple hours I talked it up -- it's bigger than Katie's! There's more grass than Katie's! Katie's doesn't have a giant (germ-filled) sand play area! He said, "Yeah, but Katie's playground has a dog." Crap.