1. Play on the her playground.
2. Take a short walk and then play on her playground.
3. Play with sidewalk chalk but only if that is followed immediately by playing on her playground.
Now, don't get me wrong, I love the playground too. I am so happy that we have it. But honestly I get reeeeeeally tired of pushing her on the swing and watching her go down the slide 50 times.
Since we've been in the winter that never ends the only thing we could really do when it was cold but not bone chilling cold was a quick playground trip to the backyard. So over the past few months she has gotten it in her head that going to play outside means swinging, climbing on the monkey bars and giving her mother a heart attack and sliding. And nothing else.
Now that the weather is warming up I want to do different things with her outside. Take a walk. Explore the woods by our house. Play in the dirt. Play basketball. Chase each other. Throw the baseball. Splash in the puddles. Hop Scotch. Ride bikes. Throw rocks. Just get dirty for the love of spring.
At this point it takes a little bribing to go outside but not go to "me playground". I am working on it and as long as the weather keeps cooperating I think we shall succeed. I may have even busted out the water table yesterday because I was so very tired of "Push me Mom!" "Super higher Mom!" "Me swing more!"
Anyway, all of this to say that I am happy winter is on its way out.
That and we did a little hiking this weekend. She thought it was really fun but about halfway through she said, "where swings, Daddy?" He sweetly told her that this was the kind of park that didn't have swings. Oh dear. I saw it coming. Huge crocodile tears and the lip quiver. I stepped in real quick and said "LOOK! You can climb that tree! How Fun!" And nudged
Do your kids have a certain activity that they want to do all the time? Indoor or outdoor!
Avery loves being outside, but she is so the opposite of B on this one. She runs from one activity to another like a crackhead, but it isn't boring. Though it would be nice not to take every toy out of the garage within 10 minutes of being outside!!!!
ReplyDeleteWeston is the same way with slides! they have a few at his daycare and anytime we leave, it's a battle of telling him he can slide the next day and hoping he doesn't start crying because he has to wait to go sliding!
ReplyDeleteAt least that playground investment was so worth it.
ReplyDeleteTaylor loves playing with her chalk and "going on ventures" (adventures) where we just walk randomly around the yard looking at things.
My kids love the swing set too. They have been asking to go out to play but it's just too wet & cold. Does B like a bike? Thanks another one of our favorites too. Today it's 40 (!!!) And sunny so we played out. It was great to get out of the house!
ReplyDeleteYou forgot #4 to your list above. "Strip all clothing off and put adorable swimsuit on". :)
ReplyDeleteLids LOVES playing outside too. Luckily with our little house and warm weather, we are outside so much of the time anyway so it makes it easy. Her thing is the pool. She could seriously stay in that pool all day long!!! Really. She turns purple and wrinkled as a prune and still cries when it is time to get out. I love it too but sometimes it gets to be too much and I would rather do something else so I have to bribe her with other really fun things! So glad you are getting warmer weather and getting to enjoy the outdoors a lot more! :)
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