Sunshine At The Park

Although the weather is supposed to turn off rainy again (sad!), we had enough sunshine this morning to head to the park across the street from our house.

I snapped a couple of pictures of Abi on her way up to the slide. I guess she was concentrating on climbing the stairs because she looks a bit grumpy in the pictures. In reality she was having a wonderful time.

As usual, the boys made a beeline for the sand pit and began a grand construction project. Bean wore a headband, because I put one in Abi's hair and he wanted to be as pretty as she was, and get all the attention she was getting while I did her hair. Curly put his on, and it made me laugh since it looks like a workout sweat band.

Curly opted to help with the sand play for a while, but soon she gravitated toward her favorite: the swings. She was disappointed that there were only toddlers at the park today. Often when we go, we meet another homeschool family with older kids, but today there were only small fry.

Bean wanted to learn how to swing, and his big sister obligingly lifted him onto the swing and gave him a big push. I watched nervously, because he has been known to spontaneously let go of the swing and fly off, but this time he stayed on. Whew!

Pretty soon, the interest of the swing paled to the attraction of the sand toys, and he was back helping Mister.

When I told Abi that I wanted to take her picture, she giggled and hid from the camera. She also learned to stay on the swings, but I didn't get a picture.  When we got home the kids jumped on the trampoline while I fixed lunch, with the back door open to their cheerful shouts and playing. I love it when the weather is nice!