Park Exploration

It was just Libby and I for the day today.  It really is amazing how easy it is with only one child demanding your attention verses 2 or 3 cause problems with one-another.  We spent the morning doing paper crafts like fortune tellers and hats and drawings, then after making mini fans Libby got the idea that she wanted to use them as wings and a tale and make a bird and attach googly eyes to it.  They actually turned out pretty cute.  She knew mom was coming home early today, after lunch though, but she asked quite a bit in the morning.  After lunch we went on a bike ride to Bayswater park down the street, and invited the neighbor Nelly to come along.  The girls played there for awhile, but when Libby heard the other group of children get asked if they wanted to go to ANOTHER park, she too wanted to change parks.  So we got back on our bikes and followed the bike trail this time to see what we could find.  Nelly led us to this park hidden on the trail that was enclosed within a pirate ship wooden structure in the ground.  There was a huge rope structure for climbing and and a round woven rope swing thing, and even a sand pit with pully systems and ways for funneling sand through pipes to get it back to the ground, and most importantly, a long, enclosed, tube slide.  We managed to stay at this park close to 2 hours!  And it was EXTREMELY populated with tons of other kids coming and going, especially for being quite a small park.  I scouted for other potential nannies, but I'm pretty sure all the other kids were accompanied by parents.  There were one or two questionable ones, girls with itty bitty babies, but then again they could have just been young parents, and didn't want to randomly ask them if they were just au pairs. 

The tide was right and the weather was perfect tonight for a little sail, think it first of the spring season!  John came home early from work too, rigged up the boat, and he and Julia took the kids out sailing.  Unfortunately, I was headed to yoga so did not get a chance to go.  However, the weather is supposed to be the same tomorrow, and the tide even a bit better, so I think sailing is in my near future!  This is just in their little boat that they sail from their boat shed right at the house. 

Tonight was the first yoga class I attended taught by Mike, Sharon's husband, and although we did most of the same positions, it was a completely different style.  He encouraged the pain of stretching much much more!  At the end when we were doing bridges (and I thought I was doing alright...) he came and told me to put my feet closer together (hard enough) but then twisted my arms in the actually lifted and pulled my back and chest toward the way my head was facing!  I definitely am not quite loosened enough to perfect that move yet!