Park Day

The summer is creeping up on us way too fast.  We'll be spending the summer in Indiana for Pete's job.  Every year before the summer I get an intense urge to do as much as possible as a family before we have to leave.  Even though we get to spend the 4 months with Pete, he is gone working most of the time and only gets Sunday's off. And so it has begun, my need to be doing something every chance we get when he's home. I bet it drives him crazy :) But family time is important to me, and I know it is to him too.

On Sunday we packed up the kiddos and spent the morning at Woodward Park feeding the overly aggressive ducks.  I had a mini freak out. I was holding the bag of bread when we got to the pond and I immediately got swarmed.  They kept getting closer and closer and wouldn't stop even when I kept backing away. They were practically standing on my shoes and trying to take the bread from my hands.  Harlow wasn't even nervous this time, even after my freak out.  She had so much fun and we even saw the duck she named Waggy from our last trip. Lennox enjoyed herself too, she didn't make a single sound, she just kept staring at the crowd of ducks around us.

After feeding the ducks we headed to the park by our house to climb on the jungle gym and swing on the swings. Funny, we actually ended up back at Woodward Park later that afternoon because Rick and Grandma B were having a bar--b-q for their birthday. 

Oh geeze, what will I do the day she doesn't want to hold my hand anymore.

That's Waggy on her left, the one with the red face.  He wags his tail every time she gave him a piece of bread.

A couple weeks ago I taught her how to pump her legs on the swings, she has finally started to get braver and insist on swinging in a big kid swing.  Yet another sign that she isn't my baby anymore. She probably tells me once a day, "Mom, I'm a kid!"