Discovery green

We went to a park downtown called Discovery Green with our friends Laura and her son J this morning. This was the only day this week where the sun actually shone brightly all day. And the temperature reached into the mid 60's. It was so wonderful in the sun! The park has lots to do and see. I'd like to go back in the summer when John could play in the fountains. This time of year they have ice skating, but he's too young so we didn't do it. And they had this display of giant globes decorated in various conservation awareness themes. John was not lost on the fact that they represented the earth and he called it so.

We took a break to watch this giant tethered balloon. It would go up for about 10 minutes and then come back down again. It seemed kinda small looking up from the ground when it was high in the air, but in reality it was quite large.

They had several things that were new and different to John in the children's play area. And he enjoyed his time there. He did get a little strange when one little girl came up and, I guess, wanted to play with him. He started shrieking, like she was taking a toy from him. Maybe he felt his space had been invaded. Needless to say, the little girl did not understand why he was shrieking at her. John was in pretty good spirits and listened pretty well to me. He only started to get fussy about the time for lunch and when it was nearing his nap. Both boys fed off each other in the car and made lots of racket on the ride home. We really need to work on John's use of his inside voice. He only has two volumes, it seems, and neither one is especially quiet when he gets excited.

We spent the last remains of daylight walking to get the mail and then checking out the poor frost-bitten plants on the back patio. And then we discovered the lovely yellow leaves that the cold had produced on our Bradford Pear trees, although most of those leaves have fallen already. Daddy's decided that raking leaves will be on his To Do list this weekend. I tried to get John to play in the leaves, but he didn't quite get the hang of tossing them up. So Daddy came to my rescue and I got a couple of shots. My technique needs some work, however. Maybe we'll play again tomorrow before we rake.

-EBP-