park reward

to reward myself, and thank the boys for being inside yesterday, i took the boys to a park for the morning.  the forecast called for rain in the afternoon so i thought we should get out while we could since we spent all day yesterday inside.

we went to a park that we haven't been to since last summer.  we got there early enough that there weren't many people and almost no bigger kids.  they boys loved it!

i think the biggest hit were the zip lines.  there are two and there were no other kids using them so the boys got to 'zip' to their hearts' content!  and they were quite self-sufficient.  i was pretty impressed.  here are a few videos.

mason said that we needed a swing like this at home and that sounded like something daddy would agree with too.

when the bigger kids showed up the boys had to wait in line for the zip lines.  they were both very patient about waiting their turn and then bringing the line back for the next person.  i think mason would have stayed all day if he could.

manning was getting a little fussy from being strapped in (i did let him swing for a bit but this is a pretty large playground and i couldn't keep a sight-line on everyone when he was swinging so he spent most of two hours we were there in the stroller.) so we were heading out.  maddux suggested that we walk down to a smaller playground down the hill a little and it was so nice out that i agreed.  we really were the only ones at this playground so i let manning check things out for a bit - including the slide.  he didn't really know what to think about it.  but as you can see, he decided that coming down was fun.

i let him check out a few more things but the equipment seemed a little rusty so i didn't let him on the stairs to climb up.  he was very happy to be moving around but would not look at me for anything.  no matter where i stood he would look in the other direction.

we all agreed that we would have to come back with madelyn and daddy.  love.