7/28/08

Getting Out of the House

The key to making the long mornings on the weekends not seem so long, is to get the boys out of the house. Since they graduated from their mornings naps a few months ago, it's been tough to get through the hours from 7:30am to 1:30pm when they go down for their afternoon naps, unless I take them somewhere.

Last weekend we tried the local parks, but the equipment was old and unsafe. So, this Saturday we traveled to another town several miles away to find a nice park for them to play. Then on Sunday, Heather came to the rescue and we went to her house to swim.

Lk and I at Heather's after our swim...


Hello!
Grandma gives Lk a hug!

Lm and his spin toy...







Lm really loves to get himself drenched in the Backyardigans water toy. He marches up to it, steps on it to make the water spray up, covers his face, and then does it again. In this heat, they love this game!











Here's Lk standing in the circle where the pool used to be. We only used it a couple of times before I let it go and had to drain it. Next time: chlorine. I've retired it to the shed until next summer.





Saturday at the park. At first we were the only ones there, then a car pulled up. My boys are very social, and as soon as they saw a little girl emerge from the back seat, they ran right up to her and said "Hi!" and wanted to play.


Despite his feats of derring-do at home, which include flips off the couch, climbing on bookcases, and diving off furniture, Lk is not so sure he wants to try this slide by himself, thankfully!







He wasn't so sure about the horse...





They loved the fire truck!







This really was a cool park. If only it was not 25 miles out of our way...





With our pool being down, hence, I invited us over to Heather's. She's got a deluxe pool. I only brought Lk with me, though, as handling both of my guys at once is a little much in the water. For their birthday, they got this floatable water car with a horn from Grandma and Grandpa. He loved it! He and Zoie played bumper cars.













3 comments:

tripntwinmom said...

GREAT to see you guys! I can totally hear you on the "getting out" thing. The twins stopped their morning nap while we were on our trip and now it gets quite crazy till they eat lunch and take the afternoon nap....

Aimee said...

I hear ya on the morning nap! Hannah doesn't get them anymore at KC and if we don't leave the house on weekend mornings, she gets sleepy. LOL I love that park! Very toddler friendly! Luke looks like he loves his sit & spin. Maybe Santa will get Hannah one for Xmas? Luke & Zoie look too cute in that pool together. :o) Glad to hear you all had an enjoyable weekend!

My Vision said...

Those pics are priceless.
Sophia used to have one of those water cars but then it got pricked by a cactus and that was the end of that. Where did mom get that? I can't find them anymore. The park looks fantastic. Liam is fearless with the Backyardigans fountain.