We've visited a lot of parks over the past few months.

 Carl Cowan Splash Pad/Park

The childhood of splash pads. 

This was a fave because it has access to a lake.

The Library park-does this have a name? 

They think they are explorers. Anderson would spend every minute of his life in some kind of creek or pond if we would let him. 

Noni's House (basically a park)

Every day we are so thankful for our Noni. 

World's Fair Park

I love this one of these 2 boys in their elements with the Sunsphere right behind them. 

Life with boys right here: jumping, mismatched clothes, grins, alligator shoes. 

Oak Ridge Pool-not a park, but sort of close 

We went with Noni & Saasha/Sunny & I got a high number of pictures (2) to capture the fun. 

YMCA swimming pool-rounding from a pool to a park, again

The Brimers joined us one day & it was really fun to hang out with them! It was especially nice because Brandon was there to entertain Anderson-it's almost football time, again!

The Cove

We met the Brimers here & had so much fun playing in the water, digging in the sand and trying to avoid catching parasites! Kidding. It really was fun. We planned to just go to the park and were not in swim gear, but ended up swimming anyway, which was a fun twist on the afternoon. 

Noni met us after work & took over the task of pushing Max in the swing. This kid loves swinging. And, Noni. He also loves his Noni. 

Fort Kid

A visit to the Art Museum with Noni, followed by fun at the park with the Brimers!

Watt Road/Bob Leonard

This park was completely renovated into this giant/dangerous climbing thing. It looks really cool, but I am not sure how practical it is to actually play on, while not breaking anything.
Also, green. So much green in this picture

This random creek in our neighborhood

Seriously, all they want to do is go outside/explore/find living things. 

We (I) caught a lizard and yet another sippy cup made the sacrifice to be an animal holder. We let him go after awhile because he was super intense with the biting. 

In a pretty awesome twist, we got his tail! I knew he had one when I first saw him, so when we realized it was gone, the hunt was on to get it. I have honestly never seen a wiggling blue lizard tail, devoid of his reptile counterpart, so I was a a little reluctant to pick it up, but am so happy that I did. The lizard tail has made a really nice addition to our nature box and I am not sure we will ever get another one, so we will treasure it. 

The Zoo (not  a park at all, but I am rounding up and stretching it a bit)

We spent a day at the zoo with a friend of mine and it was so nice; I love our zoo. Max is obsessed with Ninja Turtles lately and refuses to wear anything but one of the 3 Ninja Turles shirts that he owns (2 pajama shirt, 1 swim rash guard...none of them actual shirts.)