A Walking We Will Go

Ian LOVES to go for walks. He has a daily minimum of 2 one hour walks. If he doesn't get his walks, he doesn't sleep well and gets to be very clingy and demanding. So it is in all of our best interest to make sure we get our little munchkin outside twice a day. A couple of weeks ago, we were all able to go together for a nice long walk and took pictures of our outing. Here's a little photo journey of what we do twice a day, almost everyday.

Ian's wagon now has a permanent parking spot in our front hall, so Ian will climb in his wagon to let us know he is ready for his walk. We pull him out the front door and start down the sidewalk.

After throwing rocks in the creek, we head upstream to this fun bridge.

If he hasn't already pulled the wagon most of the way, Ian will jump out by this point and take charge of his little wagon buddy.

Then we go back and forth over the bridge about twenty times. Bridges are such fun toys for little boys!

A little ways up is another park that we recently discovered. Ian loves riding on the horse!

Whee!

This park has lots of fun double slides.

And lots of cool big rocks.

After running over both nearby bridges several times, we head back through the tunnel to go home. (The tunnel actually runs under the main road.)

Our camera doesn't do this justice. Walking through the tunnel and seeing the green grass and pretty creek is one of my favorite views of the entire trip.

Picture of the outside of the tunnel.

Back closer to home, we stop by another playground.

And then we're off in a different direction to run down really big hills!

Coming back up the hill for more!

Yay! Going downhill again. Ian loves the challenge of this steep hill!

And yup, you guessed it! Another bridge!

And even more fun rocks to climb on!

We live in an amazing neighborhood for Ian. He loves all the bridges and gets so excited to run back and forth over them. He's actually jumping up and down in this picture - both feet are in the air!

Haha - something only a Daddy would do! James picked up green slime from the pond to show Ian.

And, of course, our little boy had to touch it. I'm just glad I wasn't required to handle it!

Cheesing with Mommy!

And now you know why I don't blog as often...in addition to work and school, I spend a good part of my day outside with a nature-loving, bridge-hopping, wagon-pulling little boy. I wouldn't change it for the world though!