Park Outing

We only had a few morning hours before the rain was supposed to hit us, so we called friends and went to the park.  The kids played for a good while before our friends joined us.  It's May but we were still in layers of sweatshirts and hats and light gloves -- of course the kids shed their layers fairly quickly after warming up!

Chloe loves to be strong like Evan so when she can really feel her muscles working she grimaces like this:

The first playground outing of the year is always an adjustment as I realize all that each kid is capable of that they couldn't do at all the year before.  Chloe walked UP the tallest slide in town without thinking twice, you know,  like she'd been doing it her whole life and had never been scared of it before:

Or this crazy contraption that she is still scared of in some ways but wouldn't even touch last year!

A rare moment of stillness....

..... between daring stunts like running and jumping off this log thing.  At least he knows his own limits and won't do things that freak him out.  He does trust his own inner voice thankfully.

And he's so cute :-)  That wild hair and those dimples and those clear blue eyes...

Quite a nice morning.  And then our friends came and played too!  I bet they spent 20 minutes just swinging together at first, goofing around and giggling a lot.

Evan had told me the night before that he thought he'd be tall enough to climb the swing-set this year and he was right.  Jed joined right in and these two monkeys refused to stop despite the nagging from below of worried sisters ;-)

A walk on the trail through the woods finished off our morning.  We came out just as the rain started to sprinkle and parted ways. 

It might still be chilly out there with no leaves on anything and barely a flowering tree surviving the frosts, but the birds are still singing and the spring air smells so good!