For dinner last night, we decided to get some stuff at the deli and have a picnic at the new
park down the road from us. Basically it went like this:
- I show up with groceries and grab a picnic table
- Irish Woman arrives with Girlie Bear and Boo in tow
- I start making up a plate for Boo
- Irish Woman takes Boo to the restroom to change into his bathing suit
- Boo eats half a piece of cheese and runs off to play in the splash park
- We start eating our meal
- Boo returns, finishes the cheese, and eats some chicken, then heads back to play in the fountain
- We continue our meal
- Boo comes back, finishes off his grapes, and heads out to spray other kids with one of the built-in water guns
- We finish our dinners, and start cleaning up
- Boo makes one more trip to the picnic table to finish his chicken and strawberries, then heads over to the playground
- I eventually retrieve Boo, and carry him kicking and screaming over my shoulder to the car and head home.
Hey, at least he wore himself out. He went to bed tonight with no protest at all.
These pics were taken as Boo scaled the new jungle gym. It's basically a spiderweb configuration of 1 inch rope. He made it all the way to the top this time.
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| Getting Started |
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| Halfway There |
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| Look at me Dad! Hey Dad! Look! |
There would have been a fourth picture, but I dropped my phone in a mad rush to catch him when his feet slipped and he was hanging 7 feet off the ground. His mother gave me a rather harsh look as I lifted him down. I guess she wasn't happy about him getting so high up, but he's going to have to learn that gravity works somehow.
