New Park Adventure

Today we went to Nicollet Commons Park in Burnsville. I've been hearing a lot of good things about it so we decided to check it out. The park is in "the heart of the city" and is designed beautifully for local business people to eat their lunches there and for younger kids to play in the shin deep water areas.

When we first got there Caden was a little hesitant to get in. Eventually with me walking around telling him how fun it was and other kids playing on these rock islands in the middle of the first pool, it looked like a good idea to him.

The best part of the park was of course how many (dangerous!) rocks there were to climb on the edges of the pools, streams, and waterfalls. He had a blast going up the tallest ones he could find!

His favorite section of the park had animals shooting streams of water out of their mouths.

After awhile Caden got serious about playing and decided he needed to take his shirt off. Of course he also wanted to take his suit and diaper off!

Caden really loved it there and we'll definitely be going back - with a picnic lunch next time! We were there for an hour and a half and I still had to wrestle him to the car kicking and screaming when it was time to go.

Back to the Blog

Okay, I haven't posted anything in a long time. The longer it is the harder it feels like it's going to be to catch up on all of the updates. So I'm not going to think about the last month I've missed and just catch you up on what's been going on this week. I think from now on my blog posts will be shorter, but hopefully more often!

Lately Caden has really liked singing with us. At bedtime I always sing a few songs to him and over the weekend he decided to join in! His favorite is ABC's and he always starts out the song with a perfect "Aaaa." During the day he takes out an alphabet book he has, carries it to me, and starts on the first letter and expects me to join in. It's really adorable the way he latches on to certain sounds or noises in songs. He always gets the "baa baa" in Baa, Baa, Black Sheep. In Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star he loves to sing the "UP!" He has such a sweet voice. I tried getting it on video today, but he wouldn't have anything to do with that. Maybe some day.

Last night Caden started saying "ball" while we were reading one of his baseball books. He seems a lot more interested in repeating words if you ask him, but he has yet to actually call things by name (or us) without a prompt from us. I'm really hoping he'll make the connections and start naming objects soon. He clearly knows what things are, he just doesn't feel like he needs to say them, I guess.

This morning we went to a kid's concert at the library called the Ten Penney Band. It was a husband and wife playing multiple instruments, many of them unusual, while the kids sang along or danced. Caden was very enthusiastic joining in with the clapping and jumping! There was one song where kids had to yell out a name over and over again and Caden just started screaming "MOM!" It was pretty cute!

The only other news is that Caden was exposed to chicken pox the other day, though we didn't know it at the time. He had the vaccine at his one year checkup so hopefully he'll be fine. Chicken pox is about the last thing we feel like dealing with right now!

Now we're getting ready for a daddy-less weekend while Greg spends some much needed time with friends at the Guster concert. I've been feeling better the last two days so maybe Caden and I will venture out to a new park tomorrow. There are so many I want to check out!