Morning Stroll to the Park

It has been awhile since Lily and I walked to the park. We stopped once on the way home from shopping, but the toys were too hot to play on, and since it has been really warm lately I have just avoided it altogether and opted for water time in the backyard instead. But this morning it was cloudy and cool -- only 70 degrees, so Lily and I decided to take a walk. I got the stroller out in case she was too tired to make it home (and too heavy for me to carry), but she wanted to ride in the stroller from the get-go. So I thought it would be a good time to walk to my parent's house and see if I could check out the inside. I noticed it looked like they had all the drywall done inside the other day when I drove by, so I have been anxious to go see how the rooms are looking. Unfortunately when we got there the place was crawling with workers (on a Saturday morning!) and I was already apprehensive about bringing Lily into a construction zone, so I really didn't want to take her into an active working area. So we turned around and headed to the park. Hopefully while my Mom is here this week, we'll have time to go check out the house! My parent's house is only .25 miles away, but this was the first time I had walked there. Such an easy walk! Anyway, it seemed like everyone was out taking advantage of the cool weather. There was boys football and girls soccer practice going on and a few kids at the playground. The slide was wet, so we couldn't play there and Lily was refusing to go on the swing. So we mostly sat and watched everyone play. But, it was nice to get out.

I swear she was excited to go for a walk -- and the stroller was her idea!

She picked out this shirt last weekend at Target and has been asking to wear it all week. Seriously, every time I get her out of her crib she points to the closet and says "clothes" so we go look at her clothes and she immediately grabs the Elmo shirt (either this one or the sweatshirt my Aunt Karen sent) and says "hi" & "bye" to it. She says hi and bye to everything.
So she was excited to wear Elmo today! And I think it looks pretty cute! It is hard to get a good picture of her at the park since she is usually walking and looking down or checking out the people.
I have a love/hate relationship with these bench pictures. I LOVE them because she looks so cute, but I hate them because she looks so OLD!

This picture is from when we got back from the park. I had to post it -- I don't know if you can tell, but she has a green round link (you know those baby links) on her arm as a bracelet (she has been doing that often) and has her purse on. My little woman!