end of school picnic

this morning we went to a local park for madelyn's end of school picnic.  there was talk of it being rained out during the mother's day tea on monday, but the day was beautiful!  our kids loved this park and we can't wait to take daddy with us!

all of the kids played and each family brought one part of lunch.  it was a great way to end the school year.  madelyn was so cute because she kept asking if she could go sit with one of the teachers and try to talk which ever kid she was playing with to join her.

mason was so excited to play with the other kids too.  he tried to talk to the kids (mainly 4-year-olds) but they couldn't understand him.  the funny part was they tried to treat him like a little kid (keeping him out of their 'fort' at the top of the slide) but he was as big as they were and just laughed and powered his way path.  neither party was mean about not letting mason pass or mason pushing past.  i was just laughing because mason thought that it was funny that they would try to block his way to the slide and then didn't let them.  madelyn would have come to me crying about it.

the playground surface was 'well used' in spots but the equipment was great.  we will be back soon

mason was really delighted about the bridge.

maddux was stiff as a board the entire time he was in the swing, but still enjoyed it.

mason prefers the 'big kid' swings.

madelyn was having some trouble finding somebody to play with her at first.  she asked a friend swinging to come play and was met with a "no".  then she asked mason (at my suggestion because she had asked the friend twice and whined to me in between requests).  he too said, "no" - twice.  i then suggested that she ask someone not swinging.  that was when she told me that "alex says that i am his best friend".  why don't you ask alex to play then?  and she and alex played together the rest of the time.

madelyn climbing with alex.

maddux fell asleep shortly before lunch.  it was nice because i parked him off to the side (where other kids were sleeping in strollers) and just watched for his legs to twitch when he woke up.

not only is the climbing 'wall' cool, but it shows mason odd technique and madelyn's odd choice of shorts for under her dress - they 'match' because they both have flowers.

madelyn sitting with miss gina.