Monday, May 18, 2009

A Spring day at the Park

We had a day to make up for Toddler Group because of snow this past winter. We were lucky to have beautiful weather, and we went to a great park - Farrell McWhirter park in Redmond. I fondly remember spending time in this park growing up. I remember climbing this same spiral staircase up into the silo and being as loud as possible. It's very echo-y inside! We had a great circle time with our toddler group friends banging on the floors and sides, marching in a circle and being all sorts of different animals.
Then we took a little hike. It was lots of fun with several bridges to cross and streams to play in. We actually took a wrong turn and ended up walking a lot farther than anyone expected. One of the moms in our group is very pregnant, so the extra walking was a little exciting for her! It was a beautiful hike, and all the kids (mostly boys!!) really enjoyed finding hiking sticks and racing down the path.
After the hike, we had a picnic lunch, and let the kids play. The only play structure was this one with two tire swings. There was a school group there as well, so once our group got a hold of one of the tire swings, the boys didn't get off! I think they took turns pushing eachother a swinging for a good half an hour.
It was a fun morning. The park actually is a working farm, and they have several animals. We were really lucky - another class from toddler group went the week prior, and there weren't any baby animals. We saw lots and lots of babies. I'll put those pictures in another post.

2 comments:

Kristin said...

That looks really fun! I sent your link to a friend in Kirkland to go check it out I hope you don't mind. fun pictures!

Sarah Ragatz said...

So weird...my blog list never told me you had a new post since "breakfast in bed." I just decided I'd look at your baby in the widget to see how many days you have left. Glad I did! Looks like you've had some fun. Good job to Scott on his scouting!