On Sunday, Julia refused to take a nap. Since it was such a nice day out, I thought her and I could walk to one of the nearby parks I have recently found and let her burn off some of her energy. She LOVED it! It had a separate section for kids her age with playground equipment made just for toddlers. She had so much fun climbing up on everything and going down the slides. However, she kept wanting to go down the HUGE slide that was in the other part of the park. This slide was probably 12-16 feet tall! She just could not understand why I would not let her go don that slide. I kept telling her she was too little for it, but she was not believing me.
While playing, a little boy about 5 yrs old and his grandma came to the park. Julia played with the little boy awhile. The grandma had a little fluff-ball of a dog with her. Julia kept saying "boof, mommy, boof". The lady asked if Julia wanted to pet it and Julia actually DID!!!! Then a little later, Julia went running towards the dog saying "pet boof again". So the lady let her pet it again! I just could not believe that Julia actually WANTED to pet this dog. Dogs up close have always scared her. I think it really helped that this dog did not bark and was quite small.
After we played in the park awhile, we stopped at the Dairy Queen to get ice cream for the walk home. Julia was in heaven!
Then last night after we ate supper, ran over to her stroller (which was still sitting out), climbed in and said "ice cream, daddy". She wanted to go for a walk to get more ice cream!!
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