Today's Activities

Carter and I went to Books and Blooms at the UT Gardens again today. For the second day in a row I had to wake him up from his morning nap so we could get somewhere on time. It's weird when this kid takes a nap that's over an hour long! Today he took 2 one hour naps. But that was it so he was a bit cranky still tonight.

Today's theme at Books and Blooms was bees. After listening to the stories we looked at some bees at the sunflowers that were planted at the first Books and Blooms program of the summer. Then we all made bees. Carter actually held his hand still long enough to let me trace it on the wax paper to make the wings for the bee.


After the program I took Carter running on the Neyland and Third Creek Greenways. I've never run those portions of those greenways before. They were okay but not my favorites.

After Carter's afternoon nap I got out the splash mat I bought the other day. Carter really liked it!


Carter liked playing with the streams of water and trying to catch them. A few times he tried to drink them like he was drinking from a water fountain. I had a lot of trouble controlling the water pressure though. I'd get the water at the right height for Carter and then the pressure would increase and it'd be shooting above his head again. I kept having to run back to the spigot to turn down the pressure while not turning my back to Carter in case he did a face plant and I had to quickly get him out of the water. Luckily there is a perfect place for him to sit on the mat that is shaped like a doughnut to help keep him upright.

Here are a few videos of him playing.