The Bosley's

Autumn and the boys got to come to Utah for a couple of weeks for a visit!



 

More Park Buddies

Today the girls and I went to the park with Uncle Brian's family. Uncle Brian had the day off so he came too. Before we left though the kids enjoyed a Popsicle.

I love Caleb's face...it is too priceless.

The park we went to had a cool little mini forest off to the side of it that had a peaceful little stream running through it. You can imagine what enjoyment this provided. I think the kids would've been just fine if we would've stayed in the mini-woods and not even seen the playground.

I think I would've been fine with that too. This place reminded me of South Carolina and childhood. There was a bridge over the stream so the kids played "Pooh Sticks" from Winnie-the-Pooh. You drop a stick off one end of the bridge then rush to the other side to see who's stick comes out first.

Then each kid grabbed a big stick and just started poking around in the water. After a while they discovered that they could pull out big clumps of yuck that looked like shower drain hair.

Caleb was determined to catch a shoe that was abandoned in the stream. He dislodged it after a few pokes and then chased it down the stream a little ways.

Cameron likes for me to take his picture. Look at that face.

The kids played back at the playground for a bit before we left.

I feel like I am becoming a crazy camera lady, snapping pictures every few seconds. In a way it's annoying, but I also wonder why I haven't been doing it all along?

Park Buddies

Wednesday afternoon we went to the park with Autumn and the boys. I don't know why we haven't done this before...it was kind of a "duh" moment for me.  So we are going to try to make it a weekly outing, which will soon be even more fun with Noah's summer break coming up!

The park we went to had gorgeous trees all around it so the entire playground was shaded and perfect little rays of sunlight sprayed through the leaves here and there. I miss trees. I can't wait to live in that house in my vision of the old Ben and Lindsey cause it is surrounded by trees like the ones at this park.

 I think this park is suited for kids a little older than 2 years old cause it mostly had bars to climb up on the equipment like Cameron is doing in the first picture. Eden has not mastered those yet, in fact until this day at the park I hadn't even let her attempt them. Maybe we will put "climbing bars" under "swinging in the big kid swing" on our Learn To Do list for Eden this summer.

The kids had a great time but Caleb was disappointed that we would not be going to their house to play afterward. He said, "Aunt Lindsey," (I love hearing him say that) "It's been a long time since Hope and Eden came to my house." Maybe those weren't his exact words but pretty close I think. What a sweet boy. I assured him that we wouldn't let it be a long time again and we'd see him this weekend and go to the park again soon.

There is a story that goes with the top picture in this collage. On the highest tower of the playground was a really big twisty slide. Of course Eden wanted to try it, but once she finally climbed the mountain of stairs leading to it she had second thoughts. She sat up there for quite a while and I tried to get Hope to go up to help her down, but Caleb to the rescue!!! He went up and had Eden sit on his lap (Autumn climbed up to help with that part). When they came out the bottom of the slide Eden had a huge grin on her face. After that she didn't want to slide down unless Caleb was there and would call out to him, "Caleb! Come help me!" And he would reply, "Okay, I'm coming!"

He went to the restroom once and she was looking all around for him and called him for about five minutes. Finally she went down the slide by herself and soon after Caleb came running from the restroom toward the playground. Eden screamed and ran toward him and opened her arms to give him a big hug. Hope screamed about Caleb coming back from the potty too and ran to greet him. He had one of those smiles on his face that he was trying not to let show and it reminded me of Brian. It was the sweetest scene ever. I can't believe I didn't capture it.