(Sharon continues her Notes from the Playground series)

I may have mentioned before how great we think the playground is at Wallingford Park. It’s cool that there are two play structures, side by side, so both toddlers and older ones can do their thing, but still mingle. I especially like how the blue squishy stuff underneath it makes me feel so safe, since my son, like most three year olds, has taken his share of tumbles there.

Like the time when he was a year and a half, happily sharing the tire swing with his …

(This post begins a series from Sharon, who will be sharing stories from the Wallingford Playfield playground.)

The first time we really noticed Wallingford Playfield was when I was pregnant with our son. We were taking our nightly hour-long walk, as many first-time expectant parents do, when we stumbled upon it. Sometime since our last tennis match there the play structure had been updated or perhaps even disassembled and replaced with a much newer model. We marveled at the multi-leveled towers, the various climbing apparatuses but were impressed most by the squishy blue material the whole thing sat on.

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