kids at heart

On Sunday, we took Eli to the park with my sister Christine and her husband Wes. We went to Shadyside Park and it was a beautiful day. When we got there, it was clear that Christine and Chad (and Wes too) were the real kids having fun.

Christine and Chad are doing a little dance on the bridge that moves around. But their dancing skills pale in comparison to Eli's mad skills. :)

Christine and Chad are trying to figure out how these things work. They thought that you just hang on and try to propel yourself around with your body in a circle. Then a kid came over later and demonstrated how it really works.....it was embarrassing, really. :)

Wes tries to fake the funk on a nasty dunk......he didn't make it, but he was very close!

As you can see, Eli needed a bit of help to practice his dunking skills.

Enter Christine to save the day, although she too is too small!

So we gave up on the basketball, though Eli was very frustrated and did not understand that he could not shoot the basket. So we distracted him with a ride down the slide. If you look at his right shoe, you can see that it is about to catch on the slide. As soon as I snapped this picture, his shoe caught the side of the slide and he did a forward roll down the slide and I scooped him up with one hand before he fell completely off! And the worst part is, Chad had just asked if Eli was safe going down the slide himself, to which I replied 'of course, he does it all of the time!'....... :)

Isn't family the best?!!?!?!!!?!??