Walk... don't Run!

Random thought - Braden has now gotten to the age where he's running everywhere... he won't just walk anymore. It's not always a full on sprint, but he's kind of jogging, but in a scattered-sometimes unbalanced sort of way. It's cute... but now we have our first scraped knee. It's a fact that he didn't just skin his knee once - he's done it three days in a row.
Sunday we planned on going to the pool because Braden and I start swim classes tomorrow, I thought it would be nice to go and get aquainted with things and have Chad's help. BUT... I screwed up. Before we left this morning Chad said, "are you SURE the pool is open this early?" and I said, "Yes, Chad - I'm sure" - well... it wasn't... every other day of the week it is - but not Sunday. Oops!
Instead we let Braden roam the open soccer fields trying to chase geese and in the parking lot he discovered puddles - exciting moment for Braden. Once home Chad was happy that he could watch the Cubs (we don't get many games on TV here) - Braden went down for a nap for about 3 hours. Chad was so excited to see the Cubs that he also fell asleep from the 2nd inning into the 9th - but Chad needed a nap too...Big thanks to my man for helping out so much this weekend - and without being asked! I won't embarass you here by naming all the great things you did to help this weekend - but you know what they are and I really, really appreciated it!

Running into the geese roaming the soccer field - About 3 seconds after this picture Chad ran after him, the geese are still bigger.

Just doing my run-jog thing back to the car... wait what is this??? Water on the street? And it splashes when I jump on it? Love it!

Running into the puddle... running out of the puddle... running into the puddle... and on and on