Park

I haven't posted in a while but I wanted to commemorate an important step in my babies life.

This weekend we went to the park for the first time. The weather was beautiful so Friday we went to a park relatively close to our house.

When we got there, we had to figure out what a baby who can't walk yet would want to do at a park. We decided to have her go down a slide.

The first slide we found was this weird thing that had rollers that you (the child) just kind of roll down. It was kind of neat but we were afraid that her fingers would get cought between the rollers. So we kind of hand slid her down it a couple times. She kind of liked it but after a couple go rounds, it seemed that she didn't like the bumpiness of it.

Then I held her in my arms as we slid down a tornado slide. She didn't seem to think anything of that. To her it was just like being carried anywhere else.

Then we found a normal childs slide made of plastic. There, Arial lay her down (so she wouldn't bump her head) at the top and I would catch her four feet later at the bottom. She seemed to enjoy that quite a bit for a little while.

Then we went home.

We went back on Saturday, like park junkies. We did similar things.

Then today, we went to a school playground near our house that has swings (because we can't get enough of the park). They didn't have baby swings so Arial held her while she swung. It was nice.

I don't think that Frances likes the park as much as she could because the thrills that she can get there (the slide, the swings, etc) are not as much fun as the thrills she can get when we flip her upside down or fly her around the room or put her on our shoulders. She seems to be okay with going to the park but I think to her it's about the same as going to the grocery store. It's all just stuff to experience.

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