The Great Outdoors

Comment from Texas Momma is Healing
Time September 26, 2009 at 5:49 pm

I would get my kids their own sand box. Not these cheap ones you get at Walmart…. the ones you make out of rail road ties and are HUGE.

So far it’s really our toddler that uses toys outdoors and he really loves his Big Wheel that he got for Christmas
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Comment from Sweetgrass
Time September 26, 2009 at 6:17 pm

pool, cause I miss our pool
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Comment from stay@homemomma
Time September 26, 2009 at 7:04 pm

pool but it must come with pool help. i just want to swim, i don’t want to do all the up keep.
they love running around outside. we have a swing set and one of those step 2 climbing things w/a slide. both the kids love the slide. its what the boy loves to do, he makes a bee line for the slide as soon as we go outside.
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Comment from Æ [mom of three]
Time September 26, 2009 at 7:11 pm

If my kids were older, I would love to have a pool! They are too small right now, so it would just be a hazard.

We do have a trampoline and they love it! We also play badminton in the summer, and our two oldest try to get involved. I think it will be more fun when they get older too though. They have a swing set, but they like the trampoline more.
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Comment from chickenfarmer
Time September 26, 2009 at 7:20 pm

The really nice wooden jungle gyms. We’re out in the country and the nearest park is a ten minute drive.
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Comment from Jen M
Time September 26, 2009 at 7:46 pm

I’m with say@home. I’d like a big pool. Just no work involved. I think we have everything else possible. My yard looks like a carnival in the summer most days. My kids favorite outside toy is our bouncer. We have 2 of them now and they love inflating them and jumping. I think they’re safer than a trampoline so I like them too. (and I like to get in and bounce as well.)
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Comment from desmeran
Time September 26, 2009 at 8:16 pm

i’d love to build a treehouse with the kids. the most popular piece of outdoor equipment in our yard right now is the trees.

our kids love our swingset (slide/swings/monkey bars/sandbox: excellent investment … very expensive, but if you prorate it over the hours of use it’s gotten in the last 8 years, it comes out dirt cheap). and their bikes and scooters. and sleds. when they were little (through about age 5), they really loved the stomp rockets. the soccer ball and soccer nets. they also love the kid-sized rakes and shovels, which they use to make mazes in the leaves or snow.

would not want a pool or trampoline. too much safety stress. anyway, we live very near a pool and the neighbors have a trampoline.
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Comment from alexanders and ? mama
Time September 26, 2009 at 8:41 pm

A pool. Alexander LOVES being in the water. He will be blue as a smurf from the cold and still would argue about getting out. So a nice heated pool would be nice. We have lots of shade in our current yard so the pool we had was always on the cool side.
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Comment from ♥ Chαrlí ♥
Time September 26, 2009 at 9:26 pm

Probably a race track for their bikes.

They love their push bikes, and their 4wheeler.
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Comment from parent
Time September 26, 2009 at 10:07 pm

The play set and until this winter the sandbox( has a cover) get the most use. As soon as it warms up the pool will be used almost daily. The things like the volley ball and crochet only get used a few times each year. The thing that really gets used a lot is balls. kick ball, ball tag, basket ball, or just playing catch.
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Comment from I LOVE my Thumbs-Down Fairy!!!
Time September 26, 2009 at 10:35 pm

A large, wooden outdoor climber with sandbox, swings, and things to climb on, etc.

Pool would be a close second. since I live in Canada and only would get 5 months max out of a pool, I have to go with the climber.
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Comment from scy80 has violated Y!A again
Time September 26, 2009 at 11:00 pm

I’m with s@hm….a pool with a pool boy would be nice….and a cabana….Oh wait, this is supposed to be for the kids right? Dangit! LoL

We have one of those monstrosity of a jungle gym that a friend of our’s gave to us with the little tree house, slide, monkey bars, swings, etc. So maybe I’d want to add a little "rock wall" to it, I don’t know. Let me ask her….okay, Hannah wants a dog, does that count as "outdoor equipment"? What if we get a husky? LoL

Oooh I know…..I think we’d all enjoy a slip-n-slide built into our little hill that I wouldn’t have to clean up after every use. That would be cool!
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Comment from Zabes
Time September 26, 2009 at 11:40 pm

Swimming pool. Any local park has anything else you’d need.
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Comment from mbg516
Time September 27, 2009 at 12:21 am

swing set with clubhouse
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Comment from Cynical
Time September 27, 2009 at 1:10 am

i would buy one of those huge horribly expensive outdoor play gym things,…. you know the ones with a ‘tree’ house and slides, swings all the works. i would get it because it would be fun for the kids (and the whole family). at the moment i don’t really have anything that is too much fun outside. my daughter is only 18 months and the only thing she has that she really likes is a power wheels truck that my MIL bought her that she can’t even drive yet. it’s still too cold to go outside and explore.
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Comment from Nina Lee
Time September 27, 2009 at 1:36 am

A tree house!! We have a tiny yard w/ tiny trees…. maybe one day!
My dad built us a tree house when we were kids, it was the BEST!!

My parents (who live 20 minutes away) have an in-ground pool, trampoline, horseshoe pit, basketball goal, baseball field, etc, etc so we visit them a LOT- especially in the summer. I really want a bigger yard for my boys though. Right now we don’t have much room for anything more than a blow up pool and sandbox.
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Comment from Schmee
Time September 27, 2009 at 2:13 am

a whole farm! – - ok realistically …. a tree house with some "rock climbing" things to get up to it and a slide to get down. (and a ladder too) and pulley system to send up lunch!
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Comment from Busy Mommy of 2 (Expecting #3)
Time September 27, 2009 at 2:36 am

My children love,love, love being outdoors. My husband and I are also very fond of the outdoors. We take our children camping, off-roading on our UTV (Child care seats strapped in of course), hiking, swimming…all kinds of stuff. We spend all the time outside as possible, in the winter it is never warm enough to go outside, always under 15 degrees from November to April. We have a wooden swing set/play house in the back yard along with a huge sand box and they love it, I am glad we have it. I would really like to have a large kiddie pool with water geysers, a small water slide and dumping buckets like at the waterparks…but I am not so sure that is realistic living where we live, but it would be nice!
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Comment from Karkie
Time September 27, 2009 at 2:48 am

we have a swing set with club house & rope. They can exchange the swings for rings or the bar. We also have a trampoline that we bought from Sam’s. They have a sand box which they LOVE!
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Comment from Amber W
Time September 27, 2009 at 3:18 am

I big play yard..my kids would love it.. or else an inclosed, heated pool. My children all love to swim, i say enclosed and heated that way it would be in a little building that could be kept warm so we could swim in the winter time, and a door could be locked that way I wouldn’t have them sneaking into the pool when i wasn’t looking!
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Comment from Busy Mommy
Time September 27, 2009 at 3:24 am

Pool!! I grew up with one, it was great! I am such a strong swimmer because we had a pool available 24/7. Pool parties are fun too
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