Bobbin's Back yard
The last couple of days we've had beautiful weather. That combined with the longer day light time, means that we spend most of our time after school playing outside around the house, only coming in briefly for dinner and then playing outside again until bathtime/bedtime.
And when I say playing, I mean playing. it's hard work, keeping up with a 20-month toddler who has 5.62 acres of field to run and play in. Ok - so we aren't exactly letting her wander into the wetlands. But that still leaves a couple of good acres of rolling hilly grassy ground for her on which to leap and run and jump and fall (because falling is fun, when you do it on purpose :-))
Here's just a glimpse of what we do outside (click image to view video)
We like to "walk on rocks" up the hill all by ourselves. Walking uphill is hard work, but lots of fun. And we feel like we've really accomplished something when we get to the top. If you listen carefully, in the first one you can hear Bobbin talking about Tommy's "pee pee" as he's going potty, and asking to go for a "sing" (swing), and telling me she wants daddy to "puss" (push) "pease" (please).
We also like to pick flowers. Dandilions are our favourites.
We love to play in puddles, splashing and jumping ourselves as well as throwing things into them. "Woo ooo Woo ooo" is her toy ambulance.
We like to watch airplanes in the sky. We're directly under a flight path so we see lots of planes directly overhead but fortunately we're not close enough to the airport for them to be annoyingly low and noisy.
We like to watch Daddy, and bunnies (we had seen one just prior to coming out here) in the yard
We like to throw "tick" (sticks) in the "steam" (stream)
We like to swing on our swingset
We like to play "golf"
and most recently we discovered we love "baseball" (We didn't have a t-ball set when this video was filmed so we had to improvise. Given her enjoyment, we went out and bought a little plastic MLB t-ball set at Target the next day for $5.99. I'll post video of that later :-))
If it's a clear sky, we end the day by looking through Daddy's new telescope that he got for his birthday at the moon and stars, and then we say nite-nite to the sun and come inside (ok, the coming inside part usually requires a half-hour head start. Bobbin does NOT like to come inside, even when it's dark out. It takes several "the sun has gone nite-nite so we need to go inside" discussions to convince her it is time to go in.
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