Though Caleb and I have been on quite a few imaginary picnics to Grasshopper Park (via the wonderful world of Kindermusik), today Scott and I took Caleb on his very first real picnic–to Baumann Park. We enjoy living within walking distance of this beautiful park complete with a lake, bike paths, tennis courts, and a playground. Now that the weather is finally warm here, we have been taking Caleb over there to enjoy roaming in the wide open spaces and exploring (and eating!) the dirt, stones, bugs, sticks, dandelions, grass, etc.

For today’s outing we took him to play and dine (Caleb on cheerios) alfresco with Aunt Kathi and his friend Lucy (4 1/2). We all had a wonderful time. Lucy enjoyed teaching Caleb how to play tag, (Lucy, running at full speed: “Catch me, Caleb! Faster, Caleb, faster!” as Caleb totters far behind, falls on his face, and stalwartly gets up again to try to catch Lucy, now just a speck in the distance), how to seed the park with dandelions, how to pump on the swing (Lucy: “Caleb, like this. With your legs. Up. Down. Up. Down. Pump, Caleb!” He just looked at her.), and how to slide down the slide–and climb back up again. He got quite upset that he couldn’t make it back up the slide like Lucy. She is quite the little teacher to her very willing and dutiful student. It was so cute to watch them together.

We got some good pictures of them doing various park things. To view them, click on “At the Park.”