Lake Sammamish

What a fun day Amina and I had in Issaquah today.  It was so sunny and warm and spring-like.  We got to go to a toy store to look for some birthday gifts – yes it’s great to be able to shop for birthday gifts with the birthday girl, as this will probably be the last year we can do that!  Then we went for a picnic lunch at the park.  It was so wonderful to be able to eat by the lake in the warm sunshine and enjoy some time with my little girl.  Amina loved seeing all the ducks and seagulls.  When we were done eating I let her throw some bread to the duckies and she thought it was the neatest thing in the world! Later in the night we were telling Doug about our day and Amina used her longest sentence yet to actually answer the question ‘what did we get to do at the park’.  She said something like ‘Amina throw piece food to duckie’  I got to go for a nice walk, and then Amina got to play on the playground.  There was no one else at the playground when we got there, so after playing with Amina for a little while and making sure she knew how to climb up and go down the slide on her own I actually got to sit down and read a page of a book while she played!  That has never happened before :)  But then another little one showed up with her parents so I had to put the book down and make sure Amina was playing nice ;) She does really good, but she wants to do everything the other little girl was doing.  The other girl was just almost 1 so her parents were helping her slide and swing, etc.  And of course Amina wanted to do every thing the baby was doing even if she didn’t like it before.  She was cute though.  She got to swing on the tire swing – which was a fist.  She said “Amina swing old kid swing” as I’d told her that swing was for older kids, but then decided she could try it.   And another first – she jumped down off of a step to the ground.  She’s been jumping getting both feet off the ground since 17 months but had never before jumped down from a step.  The warm sun was a nice treat for a February day today!