Because life is busy and I can’t manage to get my kids out of the house as often as I’d like, I made myself fit in a park/picnic date yesterday. We found ourselves at the Mitchell Boulevard Park with hummus and cheese sandwiches on a sunny and breezy day. The picture above is for my mother-in-law, as she pointed out to me recently that in most photos of Little A, neither of her feet are touching the ground.
The kids ate lunch and practiced the art of hopping on one foot while eating yogurt and holding hands. I must say they got pretty good at it!
They had enough open swings for everyone who wanted to swing (rarely happens with four kids) and we promptly got everyone going as high as they could go. I should mention that the building behind the kids is Central Greens, a place I’ve been wanting to check out for a while. Has anyone out there done so yet?
Because nobody fought or peed in their pants or threw a temper tantrum, we got a special treat. We walked across the street to Story Hill BKC to get some hot chocolate.
(And stopped to roll down a hill on the way of course)
Once we got to the restaurant, I chatted with the girl behind the counter about hot chocolate prices. She was gracious enough to work out splitting up one drink into three cups, because all I had was the change in my car. What? Me forget my wallet? Never.
We walked back to the park to sit in the grass and enjoy (spill) our drinks.
And then back to the playground! Little T was perfecting her big sister skillz by taking Baby S down the slide. I’m pretty sure they enjoyed it. And yes, if it were my first (or second or third) kid, I probably wouldn’t have been all “sure, take the baby down a slide and I won’t even catch you guys at the bottom, I’ll just take pictures and assume you’ll be ok”. And they were.
J made me some pickles and hot dogs and charged me $100. I refused to pay $100 so we settled on $5.
And while I was eating my imaginary pickles, Baby S decided she’s over being a baby and tried to climb up the play structure.
It was a great park with lots of open space to run. Bathrooms were open and clean, and it’s proximity to hot chocolate will probably keep my kids asking to go back.
And as a side, I’m eating breakfast at Story Hill BKC right now. And yes I’m paying a babysitter to watch my kids while I go out for breakfast. I had some delicious egg and green chili meal, and am enjoying the coffee I gave up for good last week. Anyway, the food is good AND you can buy growlers of beer to go. So yeah, pretty much a great place.
A. Storm
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