Bamboo Paradise

We went up to our favorite park in Garden Ridge today. There is a shaded playground and swings (including baby swings), a covered picnic area, restrooms, a huge open field, a little creek that has been filled with water for months now (as opposed to completely dry for the first year we lived here and went to the park), and also a wooded area. Perfect. Oh yah, it's also in a neighborhood that has deer wandering the streets every time we drive through. Did I say it's our favorite park?

We went today with our friends and the kids discovered Bamboo Paradise. Our gang of boys, seven in all, explored the creek and wooded area of the park to their heart's delight. We were there for over two hours, and when we finally tried to reel them in to go home, they were excited to show us this treasure of bamboo plants that they discovered in the wooded area. So us mommas followed them on the path through the trees, much deeper into the woods that we thought they were going, and me with Anna in our stroller (and not a back woods type of stroller!) and were pleasantly surprised at their beautiful find. Bamboo paradise, as they called it, was really neat.

She does this chewing-on-her-finger all of the time now...maybe some new chompers will be here soon?

I tried to get some good pictures of this sweet one outside so you can see how pretty her eyes are...I still didn't get them good enough. We did have fun up at the school riding bikes though. This beautiful spring weather is wonderful and we are out enjoying it every day. I'm hoping for a long spring before the hot summer gets here.

Yah, Anna had had enough by the time I thought to get some pictures of Leah with her!


This little guy had a hard day up at the school, trying to get better at riding his bike. He screeched whenever his brothers came zooming at him with their bikes (even though they were at least ten feet away per our instructions). He ended up falling over even with training wheels, scraping his elbow, and gave up for the day. He'll get there one day...

Go enjoy your kiddos!