Fun day at the park

This morning Kileigh and I went to a few rummage sales.  At the first sale, I found a Leapfrog phonics radio that teaches the letter sounds.  At the next sale I found a scarecrow porch decoration.  I picked up a puzzle, a mower that has balls in it that pop up as you push it, and a leapfrog learning system with books.  At the last sale, I found a slide for grandma and grandpa's house.  After we were done, we headed over to grandma and grandpa's house to pick them up and head to the zoo.  They had packed a picnic lunch so we could eat at the zoo.  On the way there, I was teaching Kileigh some new words.  I would say "Kileigh say, nana" and she would repeat it and then "papa".  She had a bit of difficulty with park and zoo.  She has no problem with saying no though.  She likes to sign "thank you", "more", and "eat".  Of course when we got to their house, she was too shy to share her new words. 

After we loaded up the car, we set off for the zoo to find a big traffic jam on 1st Ave.  After waiting in the left lane, I switched to the right lane thinking we would bypass all the traffic and zip into the north parking lot.  Boy was I wrong!  There was a traffic jam on both sides of 1st Ave and going eastbound on Odgen Ave to turn left on 1st Ave.  After waiting in the left lane at the light to turn for the north parking lot for about 10 minutes and not moving, we decided to forgo the zoo and head to a park instead.  We met Kevin after work at a local park.  When we first got there, Kileigh made a beeline directly for the playground.  She LOVES slides.  After awhile, we were able to get her to take a break and ate our picnic lunch.  Kileigh sure enjoyed the afternoon playing at the park.  Grandma and grandpa enjoyed taking turns taking her down the slides.    Usually she doesn't like to swing, but I was able to get her to swing by putting her on my lap.  A little while later a family showed up and a little girl was in a swing and grandma put Kileigh in the swing next to her.  She actually enjoyed herself and stayed in for about 10 minutes.  We decided to stop pushing her when we noticed she was getting tired, so we decided it was time to leave.  Kileigh usually doesn't like to leave the park, but we knew she wouldn't fight it too much this time knowing she was going to fall asleep on the way home.  We dropped grandma and grandpa off at home and she was out cold pretty quickly.  She pretty much slept the whole way home.  Traffic was terrible, but since it took longer, it gave her longer to sleep.  When we got home, she went outside to play with her toys.  She is such an outdoorsy girl.