playdate at the park

Chance had a really eventful day at the park today. We went to a new area of Audubon park. Not really new but an are we had never spent much time in before. We met the other people from our playgroup over at the playground today. We started out at a big fountain where Chance got wet splashing his hand in the pool of water then worked our way over to the playground where we played for a while. you might remember from a previous post that one of our Moms has a bicycle with one of those little trailers attached to pull her daughter? You might also remember Chance liked climbing inside? Well, today was no different and he spent a good bit of time in there after they arrived, just playing around. Then Chance moved on to trying to climb a tree. When he saw some older kids climbing it he really wanted to go up but the branches were really high and I couldn't keep hold of him so I didn't let him go up in the tree. For that he was very upset he kept circling the tree and saying "tree," it was a little sad but there was nothing to be done. Soon he moved on though to the playground, then to spinning the pedals on a bicycle parked nearby which fell over but he was not hurt only scared a little and so he sat on my lap and I was finally able to sit down and talk to the other Moms for a few minutes then it was back to chasing him around. After a little longer of that we went to feed the fish. We have these orange cheese peanut butter crackers that Chance usually doesn't like so I brought them with us to feed to the fish and squirrels and ducks. Of course he now had to eat some but that was ok we threw them in the water and the little fish loved them. For me this was the best part of the whole day just relaxing by the water feeding the fish. I think Chance liked it too because we sat on the roots of a tree for close to half an hour feeding the fish and he never got up to run around.