Today the girls and I stayed close to home, but we managed to find an adventure anyway. After walking over to the Community Center to pay the rent (yay – Keven got paid today!), we played on an unusual set of equipment made of angular wooden slabs, tires, and pipes. Not exactly the foam-padded playground areas we’re used to around here, but the kids were not bored. We probably stayed there and played for at least an hour, when they usually tire of standard slide-n-swing apparatus in half that time.
Upon returning to the house, they were still in the mood for activity, so we left the stroller and took off on foot through the woods behind our apartment. Again, we probably trekked through the forest for at least an hour, stopping to examine shelf fungus on dead trees, giant mushrooms, hundreds of acorns, squirrels, a six-foot round mounded home for some creature (raccoons?), crows’ nests high in the trees, plenty of logs, "icky icky" red berries (as I told them), and plenty of moss and fallen leaves. We walked so far that I had to carry Ilsa home. Now my back is killing me.
But it's 2pm. After a nice lunch and about an hour of stories and playtime, they should be passed out exhausted from our eventful, active morning. That was my plan!
Upon returning to the house, they were still in the mood for activity, so we left the stroller and took off on foot through the woods behind our apartment. Again, we probably trekked through the forest for at least an hour, stopping to examine shelf fungus on dead trees, giant mushrooms, hundreds of acorns, squirrels, a six-foot round mounded home for some creature (raccoons?), crows’ nests high in the trees, plenty of logs, "icky icky" red berries (as I told them), and plenty of moss and fallen leaves. We walked so far that I had to carry Ilsa home. Now my back is killing me.
But it's 2pm. After a nice lunch and about an hour of stories and playtime, they should be passed out exhausted from our eventful, active morning. That was my plan!
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