A Tale of Two Parks

 The week before school started Trisha and I got the kids together to do something before school started.  We were going to go to the pool but, the day we decided to do it was really chilly.  So instead we met in Ft. Madison and took the kids to a couple of different parks.  

First we went to to the Riverfront park.  We had a picnic lunch ready to go too!  The kids were thrilled when a train came by!!  It was really close and loud!

 Eden is very leery of loud noises.  So, she came back to the shelter house and hung out there while the train passed.  But, other than that, she was ON THE RUN!  

 I love this because Cullen is standing like a little old man.  

 He and Chase were both VERY excited for the trains!

 Grandma Kelley was in Ft. Madison too with Owen.  So, she stopped by to have lunch with us and then left Owen to play while she finished up with her Mom and Dad at the hospital. 

After rodeo park we were going to go to the Eagle's Nest park.  It is a really unique wooden park at one of the schools in Ft. Madison.  It has so many little nooks and crannies it is kinda like a maze!  I hadn't been there since I was a teenager.  Sadly, when we drove there, it was gone and a new "regular" playground was in its place.  Also, school was in session so we couldn't play there anyway. Bummer!  So we went to the Old Settlers park.  The boys ran straight for this dome climb on thing. They asked to have their picture taken together at the top of the climby thingy.

 Cullen really liked the teeter totter.  I thought it was cute that he ran up to me and told me he was having fun on the see-saw!  I don't know who told him it was a see-saw because we call them teeter totters, lol! 

 Chase was posing for his mom to take a picture.

 Cullen would not come stand on these things with everyone else but, I think the pic turned out super duper.

 Deep Thoughts with Liam Kelley

 Owen on the elephant.

 Chasers cheesin'.

 Eden did this most of the time.  She would push it out into the street and laugh and laugh when I chased after her and told her NO!  Oh, she is a naughty little girl sometimes! 

 Eden on the elephant.

I love Owen's face in this one!! LOL!  They had a lot of fun all playing together at the park!