Wednesday, October 21, 2009

the park with friends

Staying home a few days during the week gives me the opportunity to do really fun things with my other mommy friends & their kids - and today we had a great trip to the park! We met Becky and her girls, Bree and Kate, at an awesome park. 

We started with a visit to the nature center, which was full of turtles, lizards, birds, and snakes! 

Becky is pointing out some sort of reptile! :)

Sammi looks for turtles and lizards.

The nature center has a craft area where they have projects for the kids. Today we made jack-o-lantern masks!

Sam LOVES playing with coins and money! She has a ball adding to her piggy bank at home, and loved digging through this treasure (followed by a prompt hand-washing, of course!) Hopefully we can teach her how to save some of her coins instead of spending as she grows up!

Natalie spent most of the 1 mile trail in the stroller, but we did get out for a swing! Note her tons of teeth coming in... 3 on top and 4 on bottom with one more on top close behind! She is getting SO BIG! She can actually stand on her own for about 2-15 seconds now! She'll be standing and then walking in no time!

My girls. :) Samantha almost always has a weird determination to never ever ever look at my camera. She purposely will stare at the ground any time I have it pointed toward her. As soon as I put it away, she is always back to playing and smiles. SO weird! Oh well, you get the idea....they had fun swinging together! 

Becky, THANK YOU so much for suggesting this park and meeting us out with your adorable girls! I wish we would have gotten more photos of all of them together, but one of the four was always running in a different direction! :) We'll definitely make this play-date a regular occurrence!!!!

1 comment:

Jennifer, Eric, Isaiah, and Noah Heuer said...

Brooke, my (firstborn) Isaiah is the exact same way with the camera! What in the world!!!! It drives me crazy...I'm sure it does you, too! :) Beautiful girls, nonetheless!