Thursday, August 21, 2008

Purple Park

One day last week we walked over to the purple playground in City Park.  It takes about 15 minutes to walk there.  We haven't been there since last summer.  The playground equipment was beyond Linus' abilities and I forgot about it.  I'm glad I remembered it because now Linus can enjoy many of the activities there.  I'm not sure what the real name of it is, but neighbors refer to it as Purple Park or Gorilla Park.  The predominate color is purple and there is a sculpture of a gorilla.  On a sad note, it is dedicated to a boy who died at the very young age of five.

Linus spent much of the time there pushing his dump truck around, sending it down the slide, and pushing it on various swings.  He has gotten very good at climbing and today he climbed all the way to the top of some rather tall equipment at Turtle Park.  It left me feeling a bit uneasy, but I spotted for him and he did it over and over again until he made it to the top without my help.  Even so, I was under him ready to catch him and worried about him hitting his head or teeth on the metal as he fell down.  Sometimes he gains confidence before I do.

Somewhere along the way I neglected to mention that Linus can say his ABC's and count to 13.  Neither of us knows how he learned the number 13.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Yay for him for learning his numbers and letters. I remember the first time I heard Brandon say the ABCs. It's so very cute!!