Monday, October 15, 2007

Not your average outing at the park

Although I don't have any pictures of it, it's gotta be told. We decided to take some old bread and feed the ducks this morning. One of the parks that is near our house is a dinosaur discovery park that is just freakin' awesome as far as parks go, if I must say so myself. There is waterfalls with ducks, turtles, ducklings, (in the spring) and for the first time, geese. So we get out and all the ducks are laying in the grass sunning themselves and they just start walking up to us when along come 5-6 geese. They were about as tall as Kelsey when they stretched their necks and she was unfortunately holding the bread right at the level of their beaks. The ducks are much less aggressive but this one geese was just not scared and walked right up to her. While she was just trying to feed it, it nipped her finger and she started screaming thinking it had taken off her finger, only to find, it took the rest of her bread. And then she started laughing because it was choking on the bread. It had taken a pretty big piece and tried to stuff it down it's throat before anyone else could steal it back. After the commotion had subsided, we checked her hands with all fingers intact and discovered that she was in fact, just fine.

So over to the park we went. Now granted, this is really the first time Katelyn's enjoyed the park because it's just been too hot and now that she's walking better she can climb up and down and go down the slide by herself. She thinks she is so big. So after 1 1/2 hours of digging, playing, climbing, and sliding I decided it was time to go grab some lunch. After lunch we headed home, only 5 minutes away, and that poor little girl didn't even make it home. She was sacked out in her seat. So cute!! It wasn't too difficult though, because after much weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth trying to cut her 2 naps down to one, she finally gave in and has been down to one nap since Friday. Hooray!! And she did it all herself because I just gave up on forcing her. And now she sleeps till 7:30 and is ready for bed at 7!! Life is good

2 comments:

Linz said...

LOL! I am glad that Kelsey's finers are okay! Too cute!

I love car sleeping. Sometimes Auri doesn't make it out of the parking lot! Katelyn is too cute!

Michelle said...

That sounds like a park my boys would LOVE! How very cool!
Glad kelsey's fingers are still there! Geese can be sooo mean! And how did you get katelyn on 1 nap so easily? Lucas has been fighting me on this. He keeps going back and forth on it. Ugh!