playground fun

Yesterday my girls had their homeschool classes all day so my baby and I got to hang out together. While I love having all three of my kids around, I do enjoy my days of one-on-one time with the baby. Since the weather was so beautiful, we went to the church across the street to play on their playground. We are taking advantage of the playground in this warm, before-spring weather as much as we can right now because as spring brings beautiful weather it also usually brings families of bees and wasps that love the playground as much as we do!

There are several things we like to do when we visit the playground. There is a huge field of grass in front of it that is perfect for kicking around a ball without worrying that it will go in the street or parking lot.

The switch from trying to stay warm in freezing cold weather to running around in the 80 degree weather with the sun beating down just around noontime wore him out! So he had to stop and rest a minute.

Kiki took the opportunity of her toddler sitting still for one minute to tickle him!

He loves to ride on these horses - they bounce up and down and from side to side. Yesterday, however, his spot of choice was right here in the middle! :)

The swing is probably his very favorite thing to do at the playground. He will very happily swing for 30 minutes at a time!

Next, he wanted to try out the "big kid" swing. Right here he is saying, "Go away, Kiki! Alone!" Which means he wanted to do it all by himself.

So I walked a few feet away to the little picnic shelter and sat down in the shade and just watched him swing "all by himself" for a couple minutes. He thought it was pretty cool.

Pretty soon he hopped off the swing and trotted over to join me in the shade. Here he is sitting and pondering. A moment later he said, "Star song, Kiki." He has always loved music, even when he was teeny tiny, so while we cooled off a bit, we sang some favorite songs. It is so much fun now that he is big enough to try to sing along with me!

Happily listening to Kiki sing.

Goofy, sweet, and wonderful! Little boys are so much fun! :)