Smile Chase

Slip And Slide And Fall And Cry

4 Seconds A Day: June 2016

New On The Playground

The Future Of Tilted Whirling

New favorite park!

Need Ground For Play

They took down the massive playground by our house because it had deadly chemicals in the wood or some garbage, but this one will have to do for now. Getting cold out soon anyhow. Gonna have to build a playground in the living room.

I gotta do something come spring. Must.

Represent On The Playground

Last day in Chicago. What better way to start it off then a ride on Uncle Vic to go get some pancakes? 

Now showing: Anything With Syrup, starring Us 

Yuula got a kick out of these girls "hiding" all over the neighborhood 

First stop of the day was the playground for some good old fashioned P-L-A-Y 

Hanging with the girls 

 Making friends

The light on the other side of the tunnel 

No adult supervision necessary  

Hair in the breeze 

Nothing better than swinging

Avoid Frustration And Frostbite

Surviving Sandy: Day Five

This was the day we woke up and just got out of the house. Slight frustration and frostbite was setting in but outside was considerably more mild than the past couple of days sooooooo park time!

This slide may have been a little out of her league

 This is not a very entertaining race

 Now we're getting somewhere

 This is a whole new kind of slide for this girl

Throw in a little Mediterranean see-saw

Roundabout with the big girls and hanging in there too

After the park we headed over to the outlets, which is usually a pretty depressing place. Saw some pretty suite outdoor speakers from the Bose store tho. Now I just need and extra $450.  And Yuula got a free balloon from Hartstrings.

 We made an impulsive appointment with our dealership to have our oil changed and tires rotated. Hey it was free, warm and free wifi. Don't judge. Plus Yuula made a new puppy friend and they had staring contests.

 Oh, and Yuula got her second free balloon of the day

 Why not try for pizza for dinner again tonight, but real pizza please. We actually took the time (because that's all we had) to try and find a legit pizzeria, the best in town, and I really think we did. My mother is watering now just thinking of the delicious sausage and pepper masterpiece that was served to us that night at Pizzaro's. Plus, they had photo hunt!

Thank you Mommy. I love Pizzaro's!

On this night the film choice was The Dictator because it was the only comedy that did not star Adam Sandler of have Madea in the title. But I'm afraid it sucked just as well.

Lions Slide And Lions Swing

lions like to slide too

feeling free

traffic jam

who's baby weighs more?

we're not getting anywhere on these things

no hesitation

swing lion

try and stop me

More Swinging, More Slide

Mainly I missed out on all this excitement so I cannot offer a backstory but it looks like there was swinging...

and sliding.

Playday Faces

 Yuula lodged herself inside a plastic tube

Madison channels her inner rage whenever I'm around

Fries For Lunch, Nets For Birds

So we left the campsite for lunch. Then there was a shark!

That's as close as she'd let us get her.

We heard about some world famous fries in Ocean City. We ordered a large. We got a humongous. It was all we had for lunch. We are on vacation. 

Yuula was all about the boardwalk.

They have some lovely beaches and pretty nice playgrounds right out on the sands.

Then it was back onto the boards to run into unsuspecting elderly folks.

We stopped at a souvenir gift shop but all Yuula wanted was this net.

She said she wanted to catch birds.

Who am I to say no?

To The Fastest Slide In All The Land

Started it off early this morning with a family bike ride round the back of the neighborhood and across the street to a playground so colorful I'm surprised I never saw it before. Laura makes mental notes of these kinds of things, both playgrounds and my ignorance.

Yuula did not waste anytime testing out the swings and slides. All seemed up to her standard but I think she was partial to the humpty slide off the pirate ship. That sucker can fly. One time we didn't catch her, "let's see what happens", I says. Knee scrapes happen.

But she still had fun. A little walk around the lake and the trip was complete. Now just had to bike back up those hills. Calf workout.