Three park kinda day

Wednesday and Friday are Noah's days off school.  We are busy Friday mornings with gymnastics, but Wednesday we have nothing on our agenda.  I packed the kids up early with snacks and we headed out to a park we hadn't been to in ages.  The boys were excited and told me they wanted to go to lots of parks that day.  

We started out at this gem that has a merry-go-round.  

Then we went to Suicide Hill park where Noah climbed trees, ate unripened tart crab apples and found a robins egg.  Elliot mostly played in the sand box, his current favorite activity, but he was fascinated by the robin's egg.

During Elliot's nap, Noah wanted to draw pictures, but I talked him into doing it outside with me.  He drew this scary shark.

After Elliot's nap we headed out to our 3rd park and Elliot's current favorite on days that Noah is in school.  Noah's latest thing is climbing on TOP of the monkey bars.  It may or may not have ended well the first time, but he's done it dozens since then without incident.

Luckily some friends showed up because Elliot got a cut on his toe (sandy/dirty toe) and I had to take him home to clean and fix him up.  Elliot ended up with two baths that night.  Noah had one.  And I had to scrub the bath the next day.

These kind of days are my favorite kind.  This is the best part of being a stay at home mom, with young kids.  I'll be sad when Noah's in Kindergarten 5 days a week next year and we can't do this on weekdays.