The New Park

For months now my children and I have been watching an awesome new park being built just around the corner from us. We would drive by it often and see the progress being made. Although, I must say, it seems that it was very slowly made as I'm pretty sure we've been waiting for it all year. I think there was some budget problems that slowed it down, but last week they had a very official ribbon cutting ceremony. The weather has been pretty good for the last week so I took the girls down to play a couple of times.

Here is Eden enjoying the playground. This area is specifically geared toward smaller children and the larger area for the big kids.

She finally decided she wanted to go down the little slide and would wait for me to hold my arm across it to slow her speed. Even though she was going pretty slow she still screamed as if she were going super fast.

Mostly she enjoyed playing in the wood chips, which I figured was okay for now since they are new and smell so good. :)

I was so proud of Hope the last time we went. There were a ton of kids running around and they were mostly older kids. I thought she would be scared since they seemed to be playing a pretty intense game of tag and were jumping from fixture to fixture. At one point she was up on the second story and it look as though she wanted to go down the slide but there were a couple of boys standing beside her that were talking to her and I just assumed they were being mean. I shouted up to her, "Hope are you going down the slide?" She said, "not right now, I playing with these guys." Serves me right to assume the worst of someone. :) They were indeed playing and seemed to enjoy having her play with them. It made me a little sad and a little proud all at the same time. Sad cause I realized how much she missed Noah and having her best friend to play with and proud because Noah has taught her so well to play "spaceship" and other big kid games so that she could join in. Also proud because she was confident enough to play with the much older children.

In this picture I was going down the big slide with Eden since she had wondered over to the big play place and Hope thought it was so cool to go down with me. I was able to turn and get this awesome shot.

Hope is in the middle by the boy in the black shirt. She is going from a pole to the floor of the play place. She maneuvered quite well on that stuff.

Noah is excited about this park too, so next time he is here we are planning a trip.

There is a little grassy hill in part of the field of the park and I can just imagine all the kids sledding down it in the winter time! It turned out to be worth the wait and opened just in time for the weather to cool down. Now hopefully it won't get too cold too fast.