Ghetto Slide

Ethan loves to be outside. If it's rainy and he's stuck inside, he will sit on the back of the couch and stare out the window all day long. One of his favorite things to do outside is go to the park and slide down the slides. We were playing with Ethan outside the other day probably about an hour before it was going to get dark. We have a roof that touches our grass that covers our pantry and Ethan sometimes sits on it and trys to slide. I'm afraid one day he'll rip his pants right open on those shingles! Anyway, it was getting darker and we didn't have a lot of time to take him to the park, so we decided to make our own slide..we call it the ghetto slide.

We found a tarp and draped it over the pantry roof. One of us sat at the top and helped Ethan climb up. Ethan thought it was so much fun! He didn't care one bit that we didn't have a real slide. He played on that slide until it got dark.


He was so funny to watch climb up the roof, he would get on all fours and spiderclimb up to his dad or me at the top.

Here is a full view of our ghetto slide.

Here is a video of him playing on the slide.

This next one is him spider crawling up the roof.

It's wasn't a real slide, but Ethan had a lot of fun playing on it. When we took the tarp down, he threw a royal tantrum. He threw himself onto the grass and starting kicking and screaming. I guess we'll have to do this a couple more times before it snows.