First time at the park

Zander's first day at the park was yesterday. I'm going to have to say I'm not a big fan for children his age at the park. While he loved it and could climb up on the climbers, I was terrified he'd fall through the stairs down, or the hole at the fire man pole down. OMG, was a bit too overstimulating for both of us. Though Zander did enjoy himself. I'm just bummed I did this adventure on my own and wasn't able to capture any pictures. Note to self, take the camera out BEFORE you take your kid out of the stroller, lol. We came across some older boys, more or less his cousin's ages, and he thought that of course they'd want to play with him. It was pretty cute, he picked a stick up and handed it to the oldest boy. Then ran circles around the bench they were sitting on (they were in a "time out" for something). Once they were able to get off the bench they started a game of tag with another boy. Zander ran in their direction in awe. It was pretty funny. Then the older boy tagged Zander and said, "Zander, you're it." and ran away. I laughed and Zander had no idea what tag or being "it" meant, but he followed them so the boys didn't really understand he didn't know. Then one boy came and said, "Zander! Tag me! Tag me!". Zander looked to him with the biggest smile and just stood there. I took Zander's hand and tagged the boy. Zander was it once again and the second time I helped him tag he kind of got it and went around trying to tag just that one boy. It was pretty funny watching him try to figure out what was going on, then try to figure out how to keep up with them. Eventually he moved on to the swings. There was another little girl and mommy swinging and the little girl kept moving swings, so Zander had to keep moving swings, lol. He's really too much sometimes =) Overall we had fun, but I think I'll wait a little while to take him back, until he's ready to do the climber without me walking around behind him.

A Productive Day

Today was a productive day. The house is clean, well, of course not! =P But Zander had a blast playing out on the porch and even decided to through some things down the stairs. I really need to get the screen I want around the porch so that can't happen. He masted getting onto the chairs and found some ants. Oh he was so excited about the ants crawling on his hands. It was pretty comical to see. He started yelling excitedly for me. We made banana bread. And by "we" I mean I shooed him out of the kitchen anytime I had to open the oven, and he just played with his toys. He couldn't wait to eat it though, it came out alright, a little dry, but good nonetheless. He helped load the dryer and tried to throw things, anything, into the washer. We danced around the house and had a tickle war. We went for a walk to get our groceries and stopped by McDonalds because they have Star Wars toys in their Happy Meal =) He even helped me try to fix the old computer. And by help I mean that he climbed on the chair (such a new achievement for him) and started to push the buttons on the keyboard and move the mouse around trying to get it to work, lol. We had a little struggle about who could push what =P This is my idea of a productive day...