Mulbola Children’s Park is about the last park of any significance and convenience (about 20 minutes) within walking distance of our place that August and I hadn’t yet visited. So we fit it in this afternoon while Carly did some work.
In the morning we Skyped with my parents, Carly made French toast, I gave him a bath, and he had a smoothie. There was also a lot of playing in there.
He also took an early nap, so he ended up taking an afternoon nap. I think it was the first time that has happened in weeks, excluding when he was sick.
Anyway, to get to the park we walk up the stream past 3 children’s parks and then a boring neighborhood park on the left, then take the next left. The park is nestled in the center of a few apartment complexes. It had three playgrounds, and we ended up at the one farthest east as it was the most shaded.
He played in the sand and threw rocks, sand, and one of his shovels down a grate. Luckily, the grate could be lifted and I was able to get it. We also walked up on the play structure. He wanted to go down a slide, and scooted himself forward, but then re-grabbed my hand and he started to move, causing him to fall back and bump his head on the slide.
He cried but recovered quickly, as he saw some plastic shovels and a water can belonging to someone else. It was a really nice boy who is 37 months old. He let August play with his toys, and they spent quite awhile playing together in the sand. He offered August some candy, which I turned down, and he pushed August around in his push car thing. It was really fun to watch. August had fun, and turned the little steering wheel back and forth.
Carly was done with work and skyping with Glecy, so we headed home. After we got home Carly went to the pink building for a few groceries. She came home and fed August some frozen mango, which he liked, grapefruit, which he had had before but didn’t like, but loved this time, and some cooked spinach, which he also ate.
In the evening we went for a walk in the park. Carly and I got ice cream bars, so we took turns eating them. He was initially by the water fountain, then walked over to the playground. We walked around that for about 10 minutes. We let him pick up a straw in a wrapper, and a cardboard coffee cup holder, but he got upset when he couldn’t pick up other garbage.
So we got him back over by the dinosaurs and he contentedly played with the bushes and picked up handfuls of leaves.
A little after 8, Carly left to go home and get ready for the following day and we stayed for another 20+ minutes. He scooted down the ramp, then crawled back up (he can walk both directions), then walked around the photo zone in front of the T-Rex. It is sort of circular, and he was holding my finger, doing circles on the photo zone and going up and down the two steps.
He then wandered across the park to a little hill and played there with rocks and a plastic coffee cup.
The back to the dinosaurs and north to the vending machines and passage through the science center building.
Finally, he asked to be picked up and then started saying mama. So we headed home and he fell asleep soon thereafter.
Home:
Grapefruit:
Evening park walk:
