Peeuwwww!

One of the many beauties of living in North Carolina is the random warm weather days in the middle of winter. As much as I love the warm weather, I'm not ready for it to be permanently warm yet, but I really do cherish the random warm weather days, especially when they don't involve red and khaki and flinging drugs! I picked up the kids from school last Thursday and talked about how beautiful it was and how we should do something outside. I started asking if they wanted to go to the park, and which park would they want to go to. Our kids are really funny about parks - they have many criteria to consider. They both want to go to an outside park - check. Brett wants to have plenty of things to climb on, where as Kate doesn't care about that as much. Kate wants to run and play and dig, but Brett doesn't like to get super-dirty. Brett does NOT want any park that involves him being forced to walk in sand with his tennis shoes on (and it wasn't so warm that he could go barefoot). These are all very important things to consider. Finally, we agreed on the Landfill Park. If you haven't checked it out yet, you should! There are plenty of things for the preschool crowd to do without needing so much help, yet it is also challenging enough that they don't get bored. There are paved paths and unpaved trails and all sorts of things to go exploring. I think we spent almost 3 hours there that afternoon! The kids had a blast and have already asked to go back!

Kate is very proud of her climbing skills!

Brett pretending to be a transformer, I'm sure!

Notice the silver "climbing" shoes!

On top of the big slide together

Balance skills required!

This kid LOVES to climb!

Kate likes to hang and swing on anything now, thanks to gymnastics. She started, then the kid to her right tried to pull her off, and before long she had most of the kids on the playground hanging this way. My little leader!

I see you, Mom! Check out that GORGEOUS Carolina blue sky!!!

Boom, boom, boom!

Kate can't be excluded...

Random little bridge

A view of the park from one of the trails - you can sort of see it on the side of the hill, through the trees. There is a little creek in between there too!

I don't know why, but bridges are always fun.