Finally, An Adbenture

That's adventure, for those of you who don't speak toddler. We escaped the kitchen yesterday to hit the (surprise) grocery store, then walked to the library and played at the park. Both of the boys are kind of bipolar playgrounders- sometimes Evan screams hysterically if I try to torture him by putting him in a swing and sometimes he has a blast. Last summer, Ethan went down all the slides by himself, laughing all the way, but this year he acted afraid of the big slides. He rarely tried them at all, and if he did make it to the top of the ladder he stood there and whimpered til I rescued him. So you never know what you're getting into, is what I'm sayin'. But yesterday was awesome. Or amazing, to use Ethan's current favorite word.

Ethan charged up the ladder of the biggest slide and laughed gleefully all the way down, over and over over. Evan went down the little slide several times, too. He liked the swing so much he threw back his head and gurgled with those full-body belly laughs. Ethan spun around on the tire swing and laughed just as hard. It was so sweet. They even did the teetor-totter together.

These are pictures of Ethan's first trip to the playground. I think it was right before his six-month checkup.

Here are some pictures from our adventure a couple weeks ago at the Calamus Lake- back before this Global Chilling when the sun used to shine.