Thursday, April 11, 2013

Wee Babe's First Day at the Park

While I believe that 80 degree weather is completely inappropriate for the beginning of April, it only took a day of it before I was ready to get out of the house and try out Z's park legs. My house had enough of his destructive tendencies and needed a rest. So to the park we went.

We started out on the baby swing, which the child loved at first but quickly became ho hum about. After a while we explored the bark. He isn't walking yet and only had shorts on so I wasn't keen on him crawling around but he didn't seem to mind sitting and handling those little wooden chips. A couple of times I had to mediate the choices he was making to put them in his mouth, but overall he just wanted to sit and feel. After a while I started to get bored and basically forced him against his will to try out the play structure. The metal wasn't too hot so I thought he would enjoy crawling around on it, which he sort of begrudgingly did, including a not so happy first slide experience. After that, there was no more enticing him back up, so to the bark we returned. Again he was perfectly content in the bark and again, after a while, I got bored faster than he did. But we spent a solid hour at the park, it was nap time and I felt fully justified in carrying my upset child to the car and away from his beloved bark chips.

The weather has since returned to sane spring temps and I've had to work so we haven't braved park attendance again, but I have no doubt there will be more bark chips in Z's future. Just please don't tell me all the awful diseases he can contract from them. For now I do not want to know.

1 comment:

ME said...

You really should see someone about your tendency to bore quickly.