Picnic in the park

It was such a beautiful day today and I really wanted to take Haven to the park but I could not figure out when I would have time.  So, on Jonathan's lunch break we decided we could have a picnic in the park.  We picked up Subway and headed over there to eat and watch Haven play.  I didn't realize my cheeks had gotten so puffy until you get an extreme close-up!

Haven loved to run and gallop around.

Her favorite thing was the slide.  She is such a big girl now we didn't even have to help her.  She played all by herself and loved it.

Here she is saying "weeeeeee" and she sprang forward and backward.

There were a lot of parents that took advantage of the nice day.  She had plenty of kids to watch.  At one point three of them were going down the slide together.  And then came the bully of a girl who wasn't considerate at all but just pushed her way around Haven and took over things.  My mommy claws wanted to come out, but I guess the girl was only two.

She had so much fun and Jonathan and I had such a pleasant time enjoying the weather and watching her.  She did so well at playing and staying on the playground....until the very end.  Kids have the sixth sense about when their parents are distracted.  We were packing up everything and someone drew our attention to the fact that Haven had made it to the road and was headed out on foot.  Talk about scaring me to death!  She had made it pretty far away.  We were so diligent to watch her and it only took a minute to loose her.  We live and we learn, and I definitely learned!