A Beautiful Day for the Park

We headed to a park yesterday with some co-op friends. We almost didn't go because it's on the other side of town and I still have so much stuff to get done around here, but I remembered from last year how much fun my kiddos had so I packed us a lunch and we headed on over. I'm so glad we did! There's a "wet" area with water hoses were kids can hose each other down so, of course, that's were we headed first ;)

There's a fort-like structure to run around in trying to dodge the water:

You can bring your own water guns.

Nicholas experimenting with the hose:
Taking aim. At who you ask?
His sweet, little sister of course!
Big brother to the rescue! They played and played! When the bus with all the daycare kids showed up, I called them in for a quick lunch then off to explore the rest of the park ;) This mama doesn't really do crowds :)
After lunch, we headed to the van to put our things away and guess who we ran into?? Angi's gang! They had been to the ponds while we were getting wet so we didn't see much of them this trip, but we got to see their great finds! These are for you, Angi!
Look at those smiles! I think they had some fun :)
You can't really tell by this picture, but there were like 20 or 25 (?) tadpoles in this bucket (only 2 visible). I can't remember how many Chas told me. They all had legs too! Mid-metamorphosis! My boys were giddy seeing that!
We headed over to the beautiful ponds after that! We didn't have any fishing gear or buckets with us but we really wanted to check it out and it was worth it! Gorgeous!

Then it was off to the "dry" playground.
This park had trees and shrubbery everywhere! It was really beautiful.
This is how we all felt when we got home :) Then we had soccer practice and picture day! It made for a longish day but it was alot of fun!

Jenny, thank you for setting up these park days for the co-op families! We have really enjoyed them!