We had a couple days this month where the boys went to school for a 1/2 day, so we found some parks to play at to pass the time until we had to pick them up. The first day, only J had to go, so all the rest of us went to Riverview. Ethan bribed Kate with a dollar if she would climb to the top of the rope tower. It took her a while to figure out how to do it, but she came home to an extra dollar in her collection. She was quite happy about her accomplishment.
We put E in the hamster wheel and let him spin. It was making me sick just watching him.
After E got out of it, V wanted to play in it. She ran up to it, climbed right in, and sat to drink her water in the shade.
V is getting to be such a handful when we go anywhere. I have to constantly keep my eyes on her or else she runs off before I can even turn around. Thankfully this park is separated from the street somewhat and I was able to block her in a corner to let her run around and play.
The second day we went to Tumbleweed Park. We had been to the farm house for our field trip, but we had not played at the playground portion before. I was pleasantly surprised by the shade structure over the main section of equipment. Even though it was early in the morning and only April, it was still HOT in the sun.
Kate showed me she could do the monkey bars.
Aimee finally was (barely) brave enough to cross the "swinging" bridge.
V just wanted to run around and chase all the birds. Once again, I had turned around several times just to see she wasn't standing next to me anymore. I am glad the park wasn't very busy, so it was still easy to find my little runaway.
I was just grading the kids school work and I came across a problem that Ethan got "wrong" but was so correct at the same time. The question was, "A students pushes a box of books across the room. The teacher pushes them back to where they were. Who did the most work? Why?" He answered, "The teacher because she teaches the class." While he did not grasp that because they both pushed the same item the same distance they actually did the same amount of work, he realized that teachers do actually work harder than the students on a day-to-day basis. We are so thankful for all the teachers around us, putting in endless hours of unseen work, just so that our children can have an enjoyable experience learning how to survive (and thrive) in this crazy world we live in.
