oh the places you'll go.

After accomplishing the first order of business for the day (graduating from preschool), Andy and I headed off to the ice cream shop for some celebratory ice cream shakes. Which we then took to the park to eat next to the gurgling little stream, (which had turned into a raging torrent from all the spring runoff.)

Raging 60mph stream + crazy little boy = panic attack for mother, so we headed on over to the swings on the opposite side of the park and played there for awhile. Aren't swings the best park invention ever? There was a sad two year period in the midst of all that child bearing when I couldn't sit on the swings without getting sick, but I am happy to report I appear to be completely healed from that now!

And then with his hand firmly tucked in mine, we decided to follow the stream to the end of the park just to see where it would go. After that little adventure he looked for bugs on a giant rock and let me snap a few pictures.

And then he melted my heart by saying: "Mommy, do you know what I love to do the most?" And I guessed: "Coloring?" And he said, "No! Giving you secret hugs!" (Secret hugs are hugs from behind, just in case you didn't know.) Which made this little visit to the park one of the best ever.