Outisde, Please!

This child of mine LOVES the outdoors. She will stand at the window for long periods of time watching the birds, chipmunks and stray cat that reside in our back yard. When I finally do let her out, she is so happy. When I decide its time to go back in, she gets so mad. This summer will be a blast being outside.
She also loves the park. Swings? The higher they go, the more she likes it. She giggles and giggles. She likes the slide, too. What am I saying, she loves the dirt! However, she really doesn’t like the grass at all. She will sit there with her legs up, kind of like the V you do in Pilates. She whines until you pick her up. We will have to work on that.
These pictures are the first real days of spring we’ve had, and we took the chance to go to the park. She really enjoyed it. Apparently, I wasn’t thinking it was hot enough to get a burn, but within 5 minutes, she was already pinking up. I had zero sunscreen, but thank goodness Jaymie had some, otherwise, our first trip to the park would have been a very short one.


Here she is on the way home from the park-zonked out. It was a really fun day, and the first of many park trips since!

We took the chance on another day right during the end of the semester to go to the park with our friends Jaymie (the Mom, and not pictured), Oliver (the boy) and Violet (the girl). They met us at our house and we walked to the park closest to us. It’s a small park, but just right for these kids. There is a sand box with toys in it, a slide, swings, and a merry go round thing that you stand on and hope that an adult is nice enough to push you. We had yummy Lunchable snacks, and juice. The kids had a great time, and it was a much needed break for me during the final crunch for school.Finally, after Graduation, Jacie and I made it to Idaho. The first week we were sick, but the second week we were getting better, and we had a wonderful time visiting the park almost every day! She really loved the play equipment, but for some reason, this kid loves dirt!