A Day at the Park

First off -- Let me just say how fun it is to have a girl! I love it.
She not only has hair long enough for itty-bitty pigtails now, but she sat so patiently while I painted her little toes the other day.

PARK -- We had so much fun at the park on Monday. We had set the day and time aside earlier and Dan had planned to take a break from schoolwork to go with us - so we went even though it was randomly 50 degrees outside. We may not have stayed long, but we did have the whole place to ourselves. :) At least we got to use Elena's warm weather clothes one more time before they get packed away.
The dinosaur rocker is Elena's favorite thing to do there - this week at least. As soon as we got out of the car she started to say: "Dine! Dine!" The springs on the bottom on sensitive enough that she can make it rock pretty well by herself.

Having fun on the swings:

She was so scared of this slide the first time she went down it. I was waiting at the bottom and Dan had to give her a little push to get her to slide. The next time Dan was at the bottom. Once she realized that he was waiting down there for her, she used her own hands to push herself down. I am so grateful that she has such a special relationship with her dad.

The "uh-uh" near the beginning means yes.
She says "shoe" at the bottom because it fell off right then.