Playing at the Park With Mommy

Caitlin and I headed to the neighborhood park this afternoon for some girl time. Here's a slideshow of the pictures I took of her playing in the park.

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Fun at the Park

While I was helping Conall's class, Na Na and Po Po took Caitlin to the park. It looks like everyone had fun!

walking on the park wall with Po Po

swinging "high" with Po Po

waiting on Conall's parade to start

This is one of my absolute favorite photos of her -- she has such a big smile! This was at the koi pond at the neighborhood park.

Prints in the Park or Smudges in the Park?

Our neighborhood park had an event today to help raise money to complete the fence that borders the street. They poured cement (Amy I know I probably got the word wrong -- I can't ever remember if it is concrete or cement) in sections and let the kids put their hand prints in the wet cement.

Conall loved it and loved watching the truck pouring the cement. Caitlin, on the other hand, freaked when her hands touched the wet cement. Her prints are smudged and you can't really tell they are even hand prints. She kept saying "hands dirty" and "clean my hands." After I took the photos, I went back and put each of their initials next to their prints (and Conall's name).

Waiting to put their hands in

Conall's is toward the middle and Caitlin's are the smudges to the left

New Virus? Same Virus?

Conall is puking again tonight -- about 3 different times and once it was even in the car! Oh, joy -- to own things that won't reek of vomit for the rest of their life/usefulness period.

Conall also has diarrhea, which I don't think he's ever had, even as a baby. I'm wondering if this is the same thing he started with or if we caught something new while at the doctor's office yesterday (since we were there for so long).

On another note, earlier in the day, Conall seemed so much better, with no fever or puking for over 24 hrs., that I took the kids to the park this afternoon. They had a great time, so I guess at least there is that. The puking and diarrhea didn't start until we went to the grocery store this evening.

That's all that's new here. He'll miss his soccer game in the morning and we may have to cancel going to the Daffodil Festival on Wye Mountain this weekend. We'll have to see.

A Chip Off the Old Block

There are times that Conall is so much like his daddy that it scares us all. Today was one of those days.

Stu and the kids went to the park this afternoon. Conall found a little boy who was about 7 to play with. The only problem is that the boy kept pestering Conall and telling him "you can't run faster than me" or "you can't go down the slide before I can" and other such "you can't" comments. Stu said he kept watching Conall to see how he handled it, and Conall took it in stride and kept on playing.

Next thing Stu knew, he looked over to see Conall standing at the top of the slide with his pants around his ankles and peeing down the slide. Stu immediately got onto to Conall for doing this and told Conall to come to him right away. Conall ignored his daddy and ran up to the older kid and said "I bet you can't go down the slide faster than I can." Before Stu could open his mouth, the other kid went down the slide Conall peed on and came back fanning the back of his shirt off asking when it had rained.