Climbing every mountain

In the past few weeks, Willa has transformed from a girl content to play with just the mulch, avoiding all other elements of the playground at all costs, to one who will go on the slide as much as we let her!  In the span of about a half hour one day, when dark storm clouds loomed and limited our time in the park, Willa decided to try to climb the stairs up to the slide, and to slide by herself!  Thanks to the stairs in our house she mastered the stairs of the slide fairly quickly, but the transition from standing to sitting at the top of the slide was more difficult.  It took her a few tries to feel confident enough to drop to her bottom, and to figure out what to do with her feet.  I was pretty hands on during this time, but in only 30 minutes she (and I) had enough confidence for her to try it solo, and here is a video of the result!  Now, a week of daily park visits later, she is a champ and needs absolutely no help.  She even tries the bigger, twistier slide, and I am so proud!!  Go, Willa, go!!