The Big Red Wagon

On Friday, I picked up Will at work and we decided to go to Riverfront Park to play for a little bit.  This is a huge park with lots of fun things to do.  But in Whitney's mind, there is only one part of this park and that is the big red wagon slide.  She doesn't consider the rest of the grounds to be park at all.

Here she is climbing up the ladder to get to the slide.  At first, Will or I would follow behind it to make sure she didn't fall off the steps, but she did really well climbing.  So I need to do less worrying because my little two year old is growing up and doesn't always need a hovering parent.

Here Whitney goes down the slide...

And again...

And again.  We were at the red wagon for a long time before we convinced Whitney to go see the rest of the park, and we ended up back at this slide before we left for home since the rest of the park was not such a hit.  She must have gone down this slide at least 25 or 30 times while we were there.  Here are some other pictures when we convinced Whitney there was more to see.

There are lots of little letter blocks that are the perfect size for Whitney.  She liked sitting on them - for a second or two.

The day was pleasantly warm, so the water fountains were turned on.  We went in and played with the water for a few minutes; Whitney was a little timid and didn't want to get really wet.  So we mostly watched some of the other children splashing around.

One of my favorite things at the park was to watch Whitney chase the seagulls and the ducks.  I know we probably should have stopped her and told her to leave the animals alone, but it was just too cute and funny.  If any of the birds or ducks had the audacity to get onto the pavement, Whitney ran after them and told them to get back into the water.  I don't know why she insisted they all be in the water, but it was really funny watching her.

Anyway, that was our fun day at the park.  Most of it was spent with the big red wagon.  Here is a cute picture of Rachel who was also at the park, but didn't make it down the slide this time.

So happy to be back at home after our park adventure.  Doesn't she just have the cutest smile?  Anyway, smiles for all our friends.  Life is good in Cheney.