After last week, which was full of rainy weather, Dylan and I were extremely thankful to get a couple really nice, temperate, sunny days in a row. So we decided to ditch the idea of being productive and doing any housework and go out and spend the day playing at the park instead. Who wants to stay inside on a day like this anyway, lol. So we headed back to the park that is not too far from our house, Logan Park. We have come here quite a few times, but every time we come again, Dylan gets a little more adventurous!
Dylan excitedly running to climb the steps of the smaller jungle gym thingy. They have two of these at the park, a smaller one with less steps, smaller slides, etc. And then there is a much bigger one for bigger kids, lol. He was so excited when we first got there and took off running to go play.
Dylan climbing up the steps to get to the top. He didn't forget to stop to pose for a quick "look at me Mom" picture before climbing, sliding, climbing, sliding, etc.
Dylan navigating his way around the top of one of the jungle gyms. I don't really know if these are considered jungle gyms but I don't know what else to call them...maybe play set, LOL.
Dylan LOVES going down the slides. He climbs up, goes down saying "Weeeee," and then takes off running for the steps to repeat it all over again. I still remember the first time I took him to this park and he wouldn't go down the slide without holding my hand the whole way down.
After many attempts of taking a picture of him actually going down the slide, I finally got one where he was not blurry! I love this picture because you can see his arms up and a smile on his face as he goes down.
My little music man playing with the bells. It's quite funny to watch him because he looks like he is trying to play the drums.
Dylan ran over to the swings and said "
Up." So I picked him up, put him in this swing and pushed him for about, oh I'd say maybe 3 minutes, before he said "
down." I guess the swings are a bit too boring for him, lol.
Dylan going down the curvy slide on the little kids play set. He spent the majority of his time at the park playing on the slides until he decided to go play with a little girl and her little brother for a little bit.
Dylan decided to climb the Big Kids play set which is considerably bigger. This is him sitting at the top of one of the slides on that play set.
One of the times that Dylan went down this big slide, he ended up laying down on his back instead of sitting up. He slide right off the end and landed in the mulch. As I started to head in his direction to see if he was ok, I heard him laugh. He jumped up and took off running for the steps to climb up and do it again. Kids are resilient.
Dylan had an absolute blast at the park and it was the perfect day to spend playing there! Although when we first got there, there were 3 kids already there playing...a young brother and sister and an older boy. As soon as we walked onto the playground, the older boy came over to me and demanded that little Dylan come play "lemonade stand" with him. I was quite shocked at first by the demand but tried to respond as nicely as possible and explain that he's a little bit young to understand how to play things like that and that he would probably just play on the jungle gyms. A few minutes later, the boy started picking up rocks and throwing them in the directions of the other kids that we playing. I kept wondering where this brat's parents were. Just as I thought that, a guy sitting in his truck, wound his window down and said, "Boy...stop throwing stuff," and then wound it back up.
WHAT! This all continued for maybe 5 more minutes with me telling the boy also to stop throwing stuff at the children but of course he ignored me and kept going. Just as I was about to go call the father out on being a lazy parent, he yelled for his son again but this time proclaiming..."Come on...let's go...we're gonna go get some ice cream." I was left completely astonished at this man's idea of parenting/discipline but was very thankful that Dylan and the other two (really nice/well behaved) children could all play in peace now! I thought I would just share this story because it is slightly entertaining even though I was well beyond annoyed at the moment. Anyone else want to share a horror story involving some one else's kid, LOL.
Hanging out and sitting in the shade for a bit. There are moments, every single day, that I look at Dylan and think, "How old are you again? When did you grow up this much? Where is my little baby boy?" Time goes so fast! 
Dylan running as fast as his little legs can possibly go! It is really funny to watch him run down the hills. He looks like he's completely out of control but his legs are on auto-pilot because he rarely falls. They some how move fast enough and stretch far enough to keep him upright.
