It's been really fun learning to play outside with Elena, and there is a fun park less than 5 minutes from our house that we discovered Elena LOVES! It's just the big playground equipment at Cosmo Park, which I thought was too big for her. But it's actually really well designed, with little tiny slides mixed in with the big kid slides. So, one day Laney and I went to the park with just the two of us, and one day Josh took the day off work to get some stuff down around the house, and we all went together that afternoon.
Tryin' out the Cozy Coupe... she's not so good at this yet, she doesn't really know how to peddle with her legs, and if I tried to push her, she got her feet stuck underneath because she didn't hold them up. But she did like sitting in it, and she could make it go backwards until it crashed into something! :)
And Laney learned that being short is definitely a disadvantage in basketball! It's also a little tough when the ball is bigger than your HEAD! But, she got it in there! :)
After much grunting and hard work!And, on to Cosmo! She sure loved these little spring mounted things... of course, she stayed on each one for about .3 seconds, and then wanted "Down" and "Up" again! So glad she's learned THOSE words! :)
She loves, loves, LOVES slides. She just grins like a maniac as she goes down them. It's awful fun to watch! However, she's a little nerve-wracking because sometimes she doesn't really feel the need to SIT DOWN before going down the slide... so I made several mad dashes to grab her before she went down head first!
One of the sets of equipment had this little tube to crawl through with little peep holes. She loved that she could look out and see me, so we played peekaboo for a long time! I thought this was an especially cute smile!
Big girl, climbing up the steps all by herself!
It was much more fun with Daddy there! Then, at least, there was someone to help her sit down, AND someone to catch her, rather than me making the mad dash to the bottom of the slide after getting her ready to go down!
She loved sitting on this thing. I'm not sure why, other than Daddy played on it for awhile. She just sat and bounced up and down. It was pretty cute, though!
I couldn't BELIEVE that she wanted to go down this slide. It was really long, but she LOVED it. Grinned and giggled like a madwoman all the way down! Of course, after Mommy & Daddy went up and down the stairs to the top of the slide 47 times, she was still ready to go, and we needed a nap!
This picture is from the first day, but it kind of makes me sad... she looks so big! She just took off by herself over to this other equipment, wasn't really worried about whether or not I was following. Definitely not a little baby anymore!
Anyway, we have really been enjoying those days of good weather, especially for the break they give us from the craziness of daily life. I get the feeling we will be spending many more days at Cosmo Park by the time summer rolls around!
5 comments:
LOVE all the pictures and the video, too, of course. Thanks for another good long update. Where did she get the Crazy Coupe?? Reminds me of the Asspire!!!
It does look rather like the ol' Aspire... We actually got it (and the basketball goal and her pool) from a friend of Ellen's for free!! Pretty sweet!
She is such a big girl now. It goes by fast Liz and Josh...
Yaya
I love the one of her peeking out the hole at you. And I still can't believe she went down the huge slide. What a big girl!
How fun! We need to hit up Cosmo. We went before Charlotte was walking, so that was not really too enjoyable. We will have to meet you sometime! Love both the recent updates!
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