Evening Walk

Last night the kids were not enthused about a visit to the park but were bouncing off the walls with energy. When we are sitting at the dinner table and everyone is jiggling and jiving, we need to do some serious energy burning! LOL Rob has a dx of ADHD but I actually firmly believe that all kids need lots of opportunities to burn energy during the day. Usually there is a lot of free time out of doors at our house. We have squirt toys and a swing set a sandbox and stuff they can use to create whatever their little imaginations come up with. But right now, the back yard is pretty much floating so they can't play there.

So I decided that we would take a long walk. We walked about 2 miles. The thing that cracked me up was that Rob and KC ran almost all the way. Talk about being right about pent up energies! I had brought the double stroller so that Lissa could ride and KC could rest if he wanted to. He would sit for short bits here and there or when I insisted due to traffic concerns, but mostly, he ran.

We stopped on a bridge and tossed sticks and rocks into the swift moving water below. We admired a cardinal that flew over our heads. We hung out at the fringes of the high schools parking lot picking wildflowers. We stopped at the garden center to admire their ducks and donkeys. It rained the last part of the walk but not really hard (like it is now). More like what the Irish call a "soft day." Which sounds better and more romantic to me than "for crying out loud MORE RAIN????" LOL