A Day To Play

Feb 21...

It was nice again today so I thought I would take the kids to the park. I was a little nervous because with Derrick away, I have zero help when I venture out into the world. Growing up where I did, we never had to worry about the parks being crowded or anything, more often than not if you were there...you were the only one there. Not the case in Clarksville. With the weather turning so nice, I guess every body and their mother wanted to take advantage of it and head down to the river, which is where the park is. (At least the only park I know about so far.) It's in an absolutely gorgeous location, right on the river front, you can go for a walk, play on the play ground, just sit and watch people take their boats out...it's nice, I like it. When I got there and saw all the people I was instantly second guessing our outing. There was no way I could get the stroller into the bark to help Cael if he needed me, and with all those people there, I couldn't leave Averi, even for a second. Instead of turning around I figured we could at least give it a shot, so I got both kids in the stroller and headed over to the play ground. When we got to a good spot where Averi and I could sit on a bench, I had a little pep talk with Cael. I told him he could go play with all the kids, but I couldn't go with him so it was up to him to only play on the stuff he was big enough for. I also told him that he needed to stop every once in a while and look for me so he didn't get too turned around (the play ground was huge.) To my great surprise, he listened! He was so good, I was so proud of him. He tried to go over the wobbly bridge a few times, and I was sitting on the bench thinking "no Cael, no!" Bigger kids were running back and forth on it and he was short enough that the railing wouldn't keep him on it. He used his better judgement and decided against it which I greatly appreciated. After playing for about an hour though, he did finally get brave enough to climb the steps to the big slides. I was on the ground yelling "alright! Go Cael!" But when he slid down on his belly at the speed of lightning my yells turned to "Oh Jesus!" and I ran to catch him. He came down that thing so fast, he was a little disoriented when I helped him to his feet. I probably wouldn't have found it so funny had he face planted into the bark, but the look on his little face coming down that slide was priceless. Too bad I was too busy saving his life to take the picture.

He had a ton of fun there and we are definitely going to go back, It will be a great place to take my nieces when they all come and visit this summer!