Water Picnic

The weekend before last, the girls + I met up with Mel + her babes at the splash park. The funniest thing happened...Ava + Kiley played in the water for an hour or more straight. This was highly unusual for Ava, but I'm seeing that since we started swim lessons she has become more comfortable in the water, especially with getting her face wet. And from what Mel said this was an equally unusual scene for Kiley, who spends more time on the playground than the spray-ground. Anyway, Ava informed me they were having a "water picnic"; we took all of our sand/water toys and that really helped keep them busy I think. Little sis, Livi, joined in now and then, when the big girls would let her, but mostly she enjoyed getting me to chase her to the playground. Yeah, she's only 17 months and she climbed right up the faux rock wall on the BIG playground....too busy spotting her to take a picture, but I was really quite impressed. Ava did not climb like Livi does, I think she gets it from her Dad.


Later, after I got tired of chasing Livi up the rock wall, I got her focus with lunch. Her and Cole were happy as clams sitting on the blanket eating.