wednesday in the park with eleanor

solo on the big curvy slide!

story time has moved to willow creek park (in samantha and ernie's old neighborhood) for the summer. for as reticent E was to romp on the playground equipment outside of the library last week, she was excited to get down the slide...

give flatty a ride on the zebra...

and get a little dizzy on the merry-go-round this week. oddly, these photos make it seem like we had the park to ourselves. really, there were plenty of storytimers running around.

i had my first working afternoon of the summer today. sarah, a former augie student who's starting a master's program at UI, came over just before naptime and dug up some weeds with eleanor in the yard when she woke up. it was a productive three and a half hours!