park time..

July 02nd, 2011

today we ventured to the park.. we originally weren’t headed there.. we were just going to the bank drive through.. but after Brixton death screaming in the line up for 10 minutes.. and olive asking me to “just get her!” I knew we all needed some fresh air.. and all the work it takes these days to get out of the house.. I didn’t want to go back just yet.. so we hit up our local park.. 

its perfect.. its in the burbs.. huge lawn.. bathroom and picnic tables.. I found it in my “places to go in Seattle” book.. and because it’s so randomly placed in the middle of the burbs.. its never busy.. so we grabbed our happy meal and headed out.. 

I would like to mention that my little scared-e-cat never leaves my side at the park.. its all “mom mom mom lets go.. mom come on”  so I never thought anything of it when I wheeled us in.. set up the happy meal.. grabbed my water bottle.. looked over to where Olive should be.. and instead she is almost at the top of the big slide! climbing up backwards.. my peanut cant even climb up on my bed yet.. and here she is scaring the crap out of me! I ran over where she gave me her “NO MOM! Olive do” and I let her go.. i bounced between her and the baby who would randomly sqwak and when I saw her leave my view.. I followed her over.. where she bailed down one of the steps.. my fear.. breaking her neck like her daddy did as a child.. and I went to scoop her up and bring her to safety.. when she started crying really hard.. I thought it was cause she was injured.. but alas.. it was because she never wanted off the equipment.. 

these were not the steps she fell down.. those ones were 5 feet off the ground.. gulp..and  I normally dont put a white dress from Greece on her when we are  going to play outside ;)

my baby is finally getting bigger.. it melts my heart as much as it breaks it.. she chooses her own shoes.. wants to wear her back pack like a big kid.. and tells me what she wants for dinner.. and now.. she is climbing up slides backwards.. 

le sigh