Ian Almost Becomes a Girl

The other day we had a picnic in the park. At one point Ian got into one of the baby swings and I swung him for a while. It was great fun.

And then he tried to get out. Oh boy, he got himself so wedged in that he almost became a girl. It took both me and Mommy to get him out. At one point I turned him over and tried to dump him out of the seat. It was all very funny.

Later that same day Daddy fell off his swing and landed on his butt in the dirt. About 10 seconds later Ian fell off his swing and wound up hurting himself, though not badly. He mostly scared himself, but he did cry a lot. It was actually a little embarrassing that he was so loud as he cried. The other parents were looking at us like we were bad parents. Oh well, we had a good laugh about it later that day.

You Spin Me Right 'Round, Baby!

Yesterday was another one of those days where it warmed up a little bit. It was in the 40's, which is a heat wave for February, so the kids wanted to stop at the park. I had reservations about this because I thought (correctly as it turned out) that the park would be very muddy from all the melting snow. We stopped for a while anyway and I got some great pictures of the kids having a fun time. These two pictures show them on the merry-go-round.

The merry-go-round is one of those playground toys where the kids really have a great time...until they don't. Then there are screams of "Stop! Stop!" Hmm...Maybe I spin them too fast.