Playin' at the Park

Tegan's new favorite place to go is our neighborhood park. Right now his favorite aspect of the park seems to be playing in the gravel. I'd never seen this activity until this past week as it's something that T and Daddy enjoy doing together. It's one of they ways they get to be boys together. Now, Brendan claims that Tegan never tries to eat the rocks, but here's the first thing he did when we sat him down the day I went with them :)

So of course this is what followed...

Needless to say, we've gone to the park as a family a few times since the day pictured above and T had since decided that it's not worth it to try to eat the rocks. I think he made a VERY good choice! Tegan also really enjoys playing with the steering wheel... or any wheel or anything that spins for that matter.
Then it was time to tug on the climbing wall chain.
By this point Mommy wanted in on the fun, so T and I took a ride down the slide.

WEEEEEEEE.

After a little more playing in the rocks it was time to go home. We washed up (T's hands were dirty, to say the least) and also changed into clean clothes (the ones from the park weren't clean either) and it was time to read a story. Tegan loves books! Ever since he was little it has been something that often calms him down if he gets upset about something. As you can see, he's really getting into turning the pages back and forth. Because of this we never get too far into a book despite the fact that his books are only a few pages long. :)

Lastly, a new milestone for Tegan was achieved today. No, it wasn't crawling... but it does start with a C. It's CLAPPING. We were, surprise-surprise, at the park and Tegan started clapping. It was very cute! We clapped for his clapping and I'm sure that confused him, but then he clapped some more.

Love to all!!!

~j